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Fat and out in Salerno and Province: adolescent obesity and early school leaving in Southern Italy

Barone, Adriana; O'Higgins, Niall - 2009

Salerno in Southern Italy. A simple human capital investment model is employed and this provides a framework within which to …

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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010

Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school …, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth … followed by increases in the number of disconnected youth. …

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School Entry Age Policy and Adolescent Risk–Taking

Lopez-Mayan, Cristina; Montresor, Giulia; Nicodemo, Catia - 2024

This paper investigates the impact of the school entry age policy on adolescent risk–taking behaviors. The policy mandates that children begin primary education in the year they turn six, creating relative age differences within cohorts due to a January 1st cutoff date. Using data from the...

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Improvements in Schooling Opportunities and Teen Births

Garcez, Lucas N.; Padilla-Romo, María; Peluffo, Cecilia; … - 2024

We study the causal relationship between educational attainment and teenage birth rates by focusing on a large-scale, country-wide reform that made high school compulsory and removed previously existing school capacity constraints in Mexico. Relying on administrative data on schools and births,...

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Birth weight and the dynamics of early cognitive and behavioural development

Del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John - 2009

In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. In order to deal with the endogeneity of birth weight we use an estimator based on the eliminant method. When coupled with ordinary least squares,...

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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? Twins, birthweight, and China's 'one child' policy

Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2006

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects associated with the lower birthweight and...

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Early life adversity and children's competence development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013

This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risks present in...

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On the power of childhood impressions for skill formation: Initial evidence and unsettled questions

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2013

Manifold childhood impressions result from the interactions with adult caregivers and the environment. These impressions, be they beneficial or detrimental, shape individual skill formation and achievement over the life cycle. The novelty of the paper is that it bonds two different, hitherto...

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-being of Children Left Behind: Initial Evidence from Romania

Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...

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