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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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(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence

Martins, Pedro S. - 2017

Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....

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Excluded Generation : The Growing Challenges of Labor Market Insertion for Egyptian Youth

Assaad, Ragui A. - 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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Understanding the Education Polygenic Score and Its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood

Bolyard, Atticus - 2020

We investigate the education polygenic score (PGS), an index based on genetic data that predicts years of formal education. Based on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we find that an education PGS has a beneficial effect on multiple health-related outcomes in young...

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Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences between Second-Generation Immigrants : Comparing Germany and German-Speaking Switzerland

Kunz, Johannes - 2014

In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...

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Migrant Adolescent Girls in Urban Slums India : Aspirations, Opportunities and Challenges

Agarwal, Siddharth; Jones, Eleri; Verma, Shabnam - 2017

Background: Many adolescents grow-up with inadequate access to opportunities facing challenges and risks. This study focuses on recently migrant adolescent girls in India’s fast growing urban slum population for whom multiple vulnerabilities intersect, including gender, poverty and migrant...

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The Impact of Centre-Based Childcare on Non-Cognitive Skills of Young Children

Morando, Greta; Platt, Lucinda - 2022

The early development of non-cognitive skills has longlasting benefits for children's sub- sequent educational attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample of young children in Ireland, we present new evidence on whether the use of centre-based childcare...

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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Effects and Solutions

Glassman, Amanda L.; Silverman, Rachel; McQueston, Katherine - 2012

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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Trap'd Teens : Impacts of Abortion Provider Regulations on Fertility & Education

Jones, Kelly; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - 2022

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...

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How does testing young children influence educational attainment and well-being?

Green, Colin; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Salvanes, Kari Vea - 2022

How much young children should be tested and graded is a highly contentious issue in education policy. Opponents consider it detrimental to child mental health, leading to misaligned incentives in educational policy and having little if any redeeming impact on educational performance. Others see...

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