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Author: Farivar, Leila
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1. Farivar, Leila
Three Essays on Family Structure and School Dropout among Adolescents
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010.
Also: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/18593
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Keyword(s): Birth Order; Family Structure; High School Dropouts; Siblings

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This dissertation is a collection of three essays on high school dropout by adolescents and the role of their siblings in this risky behavior. Dropping out of high school can scar the individual for his entire labor supply period with lower earnings, higher unemployment, and in turn incur considerable social and welfare costs to the economy. The data used in this study is from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, which has information on about 8,900 individuals aged 12-17 in the year 1997 who are followed up every year since. I use the first 10 rounds of this survey.
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Farivar, Leila. Three Essays on Family Structure and School Dropout among Adolescents. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010..