The Relationship between Forgone Health Care and High School Dropout: Evidence from US Adolescents
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- Giuseppe Migali & Eugenio Zucchelli, 2014. "The relationship between forgone health care and high school dropout," Working Papers 71679142, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department.
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Keywords
forgone health care; high school dropout; Add Health;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2015-05-16 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2015-05-16 (Health Economics)
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