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  • David Card and Thomas Lemieux, Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis (University of Chicago Press, 2001), chap. 9, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/risky-behavior-among-youths-economic-analysis/dropout-and-enrollment-trends-postwar-period-what-went-wrong-1970s.

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