Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health, and Schooling Attainment
Vikesh Amin,
Jere Behrman,
Jason Fletcher,
Carlos A Flores,
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes () and
Hans Peter Kohler
No nd9rx, SocArXiv from Center for Open Science
Abstract:
We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal with omitted variable bias and reverse causality. Our first approach attends to the issue of reverse causality by using health polygenic scores (PGSs) as proxies for actual adolescent health. Second, we estimate the effect of adolescent health using sibling fixed-effects models that control for unmeasured genetic and family factors shared by siblings. We find that being genetically predisposed to smoking and smoking regularly in adolescence reduces schooling attainment.
Date: 2020-07-01
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Working Paper: Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health and Schooling Attainment (2020)
Working Paper: Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health and Schooling Attainment (2020)
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