Body Weight and Academic Performance: Gender and Peer Effects
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Keywords
Human Capital; Body weight; Educational Economics; Microeconometrics;JEL classification:
- C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2015-04-02 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2015-04-02 (Education)
- NEP-HEA-2015-04-02 (Health Economics)
- NEP-URE-2015-04-02 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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