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BHATTACHARYA, SAMRAT Effect of Grade Retention on Child Test Scores Presented: New Orleans LA, Annual Meetings of the Allied Social Science Association, January 4-6 2008 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 ID Number: 5776 Publisher: Society of Government Economists (SGE) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Each year an estimated two million children in the United States repeat a grade. Investing an additional year in the same grade is expected to help a child to acquire the academic skills she lacks. This, in turn, would help her to be successful in higher grades. In spite of its popularity, grade retention remains a highly controversial practice. A majority of researchers find that, for the repeaters, repeating a grade is strongly correlated with the poor performance in mathematics and reading tests. In this paper I examine whether repeating a grade adds value to the academic performance of repeaters as measured by their improvement in mathematics and reading test scores. I focus on retention in grades one to five. I use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) and the NLSY79 Child Survey. Using a difference-in-difference propensity score matching estimator I find that repeating a grade does not lead to an improvement in a repeaters’ performance in these tests. On contrary, repeating a grade adversely affects their performance in these tests. CAWLEY, JOHN MARKOWITZ, SARA TAURAS, JOHN Body Weight, Cigarette Prices, Youth Access Laws and Adolescent Smoking Initiation Presented: Philadelphia, PA, Allied Social Science Association Meeting, January 2005. Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2005/0107_0800_0101.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult ID Number: 4903 Publisher: Society of Government Economists (SGE) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the role of body weight in smoking initiation by aolescents. We estimate discrete-time hazard models of the decision to initiate smoking using data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort. We control for cigarette prices, tobacco control policies and socioeconomic factors. To avoid problems stemming from the endogeneity of body weight, we also estimate models using the method of instrumental variables. We find clear gender differences. Lighter girls are less likely to initiate smoking, while current weight is uncorrelated with initiation among boys. Among girls, smoking initiation is insensitive to cigarette prices, but among boys smoking initiation is negatively correlated with cigarette prices. These gender-specific differences may help explain the mixed evidence of the impact of price on smoking initiation found in previous literature. HECKMAN, JAMES J. MASTEROV, DIMITRIY V. Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children Presented: Chicago, IL, T.W. Schultz Award Lecture at the Allied Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, January 2007. Also: http://jenni.uchicago.edu/Invest/FILES/dugger_2004-12-02_dvm.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 ID Number: 5939 Publisher: Society of Government Economists (SGE) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Education, perseverance and motivation are all major factors determining productivity, both in the workplace and beyond it. The family is a major producer of these skills, which are indispensable for successful students and workers. Unfortunately, many families have failed to perform this task well in recent years. This retards the growth in the quality of the labor force. Dysfunctional families are also a major determinant of child participation in crime and other costly pathological behaviors. On productivity grounds alone, it appears to make sound business sense to invest in young children from disadvantaged environments. An accumulating body of evidence suggests that early childhood interventions are much more effective than remedies that attempt to compensate for early neglect later in life. Enriched pre-kindergarten programs available to disadvantaged children on a voluntary basis, coupled with home visitation programs, have a strong track record of promoting achievement for disadvantaged children, improving their labor market outcomes and reducing involvement with crime. Such programs are likely to generate substantial savings to society and to promote higher economic growth by improving the skills of the workforce. SMITH, JEFFREY A. DILLON, ELEANOR W. Mismatch Between Students and Colleges: Evidence from the NLSY-97 Presented: San Francisco, CA, Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, January 3-5, 2009 Cohort(s): NLSY97 ID Number: 6327 Publisher: Society of Government Economists (SGE) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Search returned 4 items. Search Start: 17:38:41 Search Finish: 17:38:41
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