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Improvements in schooling opportunities and teen births

Garcez, Lucas N.; Padilla-Romo, María; Peluffo, Cecilia; … - 2024

We study the causal relationship between educational attainment and teenage birth rates by focusing on a large-scale, country-wide reform that made high school compulsory and removed previously existing school capacity constraints in Mexico. Relying on administrative data on schools and births,...

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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability

Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023

Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...

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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability

Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023

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Swallow This : Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability

Abrahamsson, Sara Sofie; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK

Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free choice. The main underlying assumption is that...

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Sex, violence, and drugs among Latin American and Caribbean adolescents : do engaged parents make a difference?

Ruprah, Inder S.; Sierra, Ricardo - 2016

This paper uses data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey to investigate the prevalence of health risk behaviors, in particular substance use, risky sexual behavior, and violence among adolescents in 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Using logit regressions and...

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HIV/AIDS knowledge and sexual behavior of female young adults in the Philippines

Abrigo, Michael Ralph M. - 2017

The impact of sex education on various behavioral outcomes has been well studied in the literature. However, these studies fail to account for the simultaneity between knowledge demand and sexual behavior, leading to inconsistent effect estimates using simple comparison of means from randomized...

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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010

Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school …, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth … followed by increases in the number of disconnected youth. …

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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2009

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A Socio-Economic Analysis of Youth Disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010

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