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developing and implementing tobacco control and youth smoking prevention programs should be aware of PM and B&W’s role and … school-based drug prevention program recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reduce youth smoking … using the keywords “life skills training,†“LST,†and “positive youth development.†Results: Tobacco industry …
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We model the future tobacco consumption, size of smoking population and governmental tax revenues in the Czech Republic …. The main assumption of our model states that smokers determine their future tobacco consumption behavior as adolescents …. Further assumptions make the model applicable to the data from the Czech National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug …
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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
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. From each school/centre 10 beneficiary students (5 boys and 5 girls) and their respective parents were selected. Further a …The study covered 17 states and 48 districts. Two blocks from each district were selected. Five schools from each block …
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being better in unmeasured ways. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm …-bound effects show that while students (particularly females) with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools may benefit … from attending them, most students perform no better at single sex schools. I show that the treatment effect for the …
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data confirmed that it reduces depression and improves self-esteem and school aspirations. These positive impacts on girls …This study investigates the effects of single-sex schooling on students’ mental health, focusing on feeling blue …, happiness, and suicidal ideation. Employing a national-level large-scale dataset regarding middle school students in South Korea …
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these based on data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-1). [WP No. 167]. …
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The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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