Education is a complex topic for survey measurement, and the individual’s educational attainment is only a narrow snapshot of possible measures relating to an individual’s educational experience (Smith, 1995). It is, however, a pervasive concept in social science theories, and accordingly one of the most used variables in social science research using individual level data. Researchers are ofte...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was twofold: to analyze the association between physical fitness and academic attainment, and to determine the influence of screen time on the association between physical fitness and academic attainment. METHODS A cross-sectional study including 395 schoolchildren from seven schools of the Maule Region, Chile (mean age 12.1 years; 50.4% boys) participated ...

This paper quantifies the association between religions, religiosity and educational attainment of new lawful immigrants to the U.S. This paper considers a broad set of religions that includes most of the major religions of the world. Using data from the New Immigrant Survey (2003), we show that affiliation with religion is not necessarily associated with an increase in educational attainment. ...

The paper exams if and how much the educational attainment gap between blacks and whites are due to the difference in their neighborhoods. We study neighborhood effect by allowing the unobserved components to be correlated across the decisions to the educational attainment and to the residential mobility. Meanwhile, we assume two heterogeneous correlations: zero correlations and nonzero correla...

Self-control is typically viewed as a key ingredient responsible for effective self-regulation and personal goal attainment. This study used experience sampling, daily diary, and prospective data collection to investigate the immediate and semester-long consequences of effortful self-control and temptations on depletion and goal attainment. Results showed that goal attainment was influenced by ...

This paper estimates the causal effect of teenage childbearing on educational attainment using two cohorts of Australian twins and their relatives. Our main finding is that the negative effect of teenage childbearing on educational attainment appears to be small. We find no difference in educational attainment between teen mothers and their identical twin sisters. Data on the relatives of the t...

This research estimates the influence of adolescent weight status on levels of educational attainment. Prior studies have found a causal role of obesity in other economic outcomes such as income. Given the crucial role of human capital investments for economic success, estimates of the causal influence of weight problems on education accumulation are provided. Models ignoring the potential endo...

HYPOTHESIS Average levels of attainment in primary and secondary schools in England in 2010 and 2011 are positively associated with changes in average school lunch take up between 2008-2009 and 2010-2011. SUBJECTS/METHODS Average school lunch take up and attainment data were available for 2009-2011 for primary and secondary sectors in a minimum of 106 local authorities (LAs) in England and 85...

Researchers know relatively little about the educational attainment of sexual minorities, despite the fact that educational attainment is consistently associated with a range of social, economic, and health outcomes. We examined whether sexual attraction in adolescence and early adulthood was associated with educational attainment in early adulthood among a nationally representative sample of U...