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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the … with slow economic growth, rather than the supposedly low degree of labor market flexibility explain high (youth … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European …

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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms and recruitment of teachers in a differential rate...

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Household wealth and body mass index : towards a healthy ageing?

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023

Studying the impact of exogenous wealth shocks on health-related outcomes can help policymakers in the design and evaluation of social programs that provide income to certain groups. This paper analyzes the impact of unexpected inheritances on Body Mass Index, using data from the Survey of...

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Religiosity, smoking and other risky behaviors

Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - 2022

While under communism the identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth …

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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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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020

We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...

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The economics of university dropouts and delayed graduation : a survey

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2018

This survey organizes and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of university student achievements. According to the theoretical framework, the decision to invest in tertiary education is a sequential process made under gradually decreasing levels of uncertainty...

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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Field-of-study homogamy

Bičáková, Alena; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2017

countries. Graduates in Social Sciences display a particularly strong tendency towards homogamy and also have the highest …

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Motherhood, migration, and self-employment of college graduates

Cai, Zhengyu; Stephens, Heather M.; Winters, John V. - 2019

true for college graduates, who tend to have more successful businesses. Access to childcare may also affect their labor …

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