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Title: Estimating the Effects of Family Relocation on Children's Education and Youth Risky Behavior
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Mai, Hui |
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Estimating the Effects of Family Relocation on Children's Education and Youth Risky Behavior Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Washington, October 2014 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Washington Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Drug Use; Mobility, Residential; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Runaways; School Completion; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using individual-level data from the NLSY79 and the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults, we empirically investigate the role of family relocation on children's schooling and youth behavior problems. By exploiting the variation in sibling's age at the time of family relocation, we find no detectable negative effects of family relocation on various children's outcomes. In addition, while the OLS estimates vary by gender and ethnicity, this variety disappears in the sibling fixed effects estimates. Our empirical results indicate that the unobserved family characteristics that drive the decision of family relocation are responsible for children's schooling and behavior outcomes in the long run. |
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Bibliography Citation
Mai, Hui. "Estimating the Effects of Family Relocation on Children's Education and Youth Risky Behavior." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Washington, October 2014. |