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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...

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Explaining gaps in educational transitions between migrant and native school leavers

Zimmermann, Markus - 2019

This paper analyzes the reasons for the large and persistent gaps in transitions after secondary school between native pupils compared to second- and third generation immigrant pupils in Germany. I first document that differences in parental background, skills (such as school degrees or test...

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El efecto de la educación en las actitudes de género : evidencia experimental en educación secundaria en El Salvador

Bando Grana, Rosangela; Hidalgo, Nidia; Land, Austin - 2018

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It takes a village : the economics of parenting with neighborhood and peer effects

Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020

As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We study interactions of parenting style and peer...

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Younger, dissatisfied, and unhealthy - relative age in adolescence

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn; Sarracino, Francesco - 2020

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Excluded generation : the growing challenges of labor market insertion for Egyptian youth

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline - 2017

Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted … time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions relates to gender and social class. We demonstrate that youth today …. Whether youth successfully make transitions to formal jobs, embark on such transitions and fail, or pursue a traditional route …

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Does postpartum depression predict emotional and cognitive difficulties in 11 year olds?

Komodromou, Maria Elena - 2017

This paper examines the role of postpartum depression (PPD) on the emotional and cognitive development of 11-year olds, a key stage of transition in child development before entering adolescence. The present study uses data from the MCS, a longitudinal cohort study with a large and...

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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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The causal effects of adolescent school : bullying victimisation on later life outcomes

Gorman, Emma; Harmon, Colm; Mendolia, Silvia; Staneva, Anita - 2019

We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....

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A neglected determinant of eating behaviors : relative age

Fumarco, Luca; Hartmann, Sven Alfred; Principe, Francesco - 2024

This study investigates a neglected determinant of adolescents' dietary behaviors: the within-class age difference, in isolation from confounding factors (e.g., absolute age, season-of-birth, and countries' specific characteristics, such as expected age at school start). We study a multi-country...

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