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This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using …
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compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …
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. Moreover, they have also experienced a deterioration in their employment and earnings over the last three decades. In this … paper, we document this evolution and adopt a longitudinal approach to show that employment and earnings losses suffered by …
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test his thesis as it relates to suicide among young black males, which has increased dramatically over the past two … concentrated disadvantage on suicide among young black males across U.S. cities. After establishing its role in shaping suicide … findings show that while disadvantage is related to suicide for young black and white males, industrial composition only …
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Education choices are made based on the expected returns to schooling. If individuals are badly informed, they may make inefficient choices. We directly elicit young people's subjective expectations at the age of 14-15 about earnings under different educational scenarios and find these predict...
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, however has not been identified empirically. I suggest that employment during adolescence promotes the formation of character …
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This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in education. There is evidence of sample selection bias in the case of young men, suggesting that...
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