Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment. NBER Working Paper No. 14994

Autor/inn/en	Kaestner, Robert; Grossman, Michael; Yarnoff, Benjamin
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment. NBER Working Paper No. 14994
Quelle	(2009) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Attainment; Adolescents; Body Weight; Dropout Rate; Dropouts; Regression (Statistics); National Longitudinal Survey of Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Körpergewicht; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and adolescent's educational attainment, as measured by highest grade attended, highest grade completed, and drop out status. Data for the study came from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of teens between the ages of 14 and 18. We obtained estimates of the association between weight and educational attainment using several regression model specifications that controlled for a variety of observed characteristics. Our results suggest that, in general, teens that are overweight or obese have levels of attainment that are about the same as teens with average weight. (As Provided).
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