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Title: Health and the Educational Attainment of Adolescents: Evidence from the NLSY97
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Haas, Steven A. Fosse, Nathan Edward |
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Health and the Educational Attainment of Adolescents: Evidence from the NLSY97 Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49,2 (June 2008): 178-192. Also: http://hsb.sagepub.com/content/49/2/178.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Academic Development; Accidents; Bullying/Victimization; Cognitive Development; Educational Attainment; Family Characteristics; Health, Mental/Psychological; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; High School Completion/Graduates; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Logit; Psychological Effects; Schooling, Post-secondary; Siblings; Socioeconomic Factors; Teenagers; Transition, Adulthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article examines the mechanisms linking health to the educational attainment of adolescents. In particular, it investigates the role of cognitive/academic achievement and a variety of psychosocial adjustment factors in explaining this relationship. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort (NLSY97), we estimate models of timely high school completion and of post-secondary enrollment using both standard logit estimation and sibling fixed-effects models. We find that, net of sociodemographic background and stable unobserved family characteristics, adolescents who experience worse health are substantially less likely to complete high school by their 20th birthday and to transition to post-secondary education. Cognitive/academic achievement and psychosocial factors appear to explain a large portion of these health-related educational deficits. However, adolescent health continues to be significantly associated with these key educational transitions. The findings highlight a potentially important role of health selection processes in generating socioeconomic inequalities in early adolescence to young adulthood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Health & Social Behavior is the property of American Sociological Association and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts) |
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Haas, Steven A. and Nathan Edward Fosse. "Health and the Educational Attainment of Adolescents: Evidence from the NLSY97." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49,2 (June 2008): 178-192.
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