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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes
Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There are many potential channels for this effect, although, as usual, identifying a causal relationship is difficult. We appeal to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722842
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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods
Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745534
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Social housing, neighborhood quality and student performance
Weinhardt, Felix - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126243
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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement?
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
Using cultural transmission, we develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children's educational attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for high-educated parents, the better the quality of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645355
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Education and health knowledge: evidence from UK compulsory schooling reforms
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126452
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Education and Health Knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reforms
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945130
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Education, Competence Development and Economic Growth - A Micro Explanation to Macro Economic Growth
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685071