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Peers' Race in Adolescence and Voting Behavior
Polipciuc, Maria; Cörvers, Frank; Montizaan, Raymond - 2021
Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. teenagers, we investigate how peer racial composition in high school affects individual turnout of young adults. We exploit across-cohort, within-school differences in peer racial composition. One within-school standard deviation increase in the...
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Driven to Succeed? Teenagers' Drive, Ambition and Performance on High-Stakes Examinations
Jerrim, John - 2020
There has been much interest across the social sciences in the link between young people's socioemotional (non-cognitive) skills and their educational achievement. But much of this research has focused upon the role of the Big Five personality traits. This paper contributes new evidence by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827338
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TRAP'd teens: impacts of abortion provider regulations on fertility & education
Jones, Kelly; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - 2021
Targeted regulations of abortion providers (TRAP laws) are the fastest growing abortion restriction in the U.S. These often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698101
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Educational choice and risk aversion : how important is structural vs. individual risk aversion?
Hartlaub, Vanessa; Schneider, Thorsten - 2012
on data from the youth questionnaire of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) collected in the years 2003 to 2010 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541883
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Higher Education Financing and the Educational Aspirations of Teenagers and Their Parents
Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Hassani Nezhad, Lena; … - 2021
We study the impact of higher education financing on the academic aspirations of teenagers and of their parents. We exploit a reform which introduced a large increase in the maximum university tuition fees and a more redistributive student loan system, both of which varied across the UK's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315154
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How Skills Acquired during Youth Affect Later Racial and Ethnic Homeownership Gaps
Liu, Liyi; McManus, Douglas A. - 2021
The effects of skills achieved in early adulthood—as measured by the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) score, the Rotter score, and Deming’s (2017) Social score—are shown to impact education, income, and homeownership levels achieved in later life. Mediation analysis is used to identify...
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Productivity versus motivation in adolescent human capital production : evidence from a structurally-motivated field experiment
Cotton, Christopher; Hickman, Brent R.; List, John A.; … - 2020 - Original version: October 2020
We leverage a field experiment across three distinct school districts to identify key pieces of a structural model of adolescent human capital production. Our focus is inspired by the contemporary psychology of education literature, which expresses learning as a function of the ratio of the time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012384176
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"O youth and beauty" : children's looks and children's cognitive development
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Gordon, Rachel A.; Crosnoe, Robert - 2019
We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127187
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Education gap and youth : a growing challenge in the MENA region
Rizk, Reham; Hawash, Ronia - 2020
. This paper examines the determinants and the sources of education inequality among the youth in the MENA region using … inequality. The paper makes use of the Recentered Influence Functions (RIF) unconditional regression techniques to examine youth …. The findings show that higher household income reduces education inequality among youth in Iraq and higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228441
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Higher education financing and the educational aspirations of teenagers and their parents
Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Hassani-Nezhad, Lena; … - 2020
We study the impact of higher education financing on the academic aspirations of teenagers and of their parents. We exploit a reform which introduced a large increase in the maximum university tuition fees and a more redistributive student loan system, both of which varied across the UK's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305217