Unlucky to Be Young? The Long-Term Effects of School Starting Age on Smoking Behaviour and Health

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Michael Bahrs, Mathias Schumann

Hamburg: Hamburg Center for Health Economics, 2016,
(HCHE Research Paper No. 2016/13)

Abstract

In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy regression discontinuity design.

Themen: Gesundheit, Bildung



Keywords: smoking, health, peer effects, education, school starting age, regression discontinuity design
Externer Link:
https://www.hche.de/forschung/publikationen/rp-bahrs--schumann-2016-webversion-rp13-2016.pdf

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