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Research on effective afterschool programs shows that the focus on student engagement, which keeps children coming after school, increases attendance in the regular school day.
Yet past studies have generally found that while walking and biking to school increases physical activity levels, it has little or no impact on body weight.
Conversely, poor self-control in elementary school increases the risk of adult financial difficulties, criminal behavior, single parenthood and drug dependence.
Caroline Harper, head of the social development programme at the Overseas Development Institute, explained: "An extra year of primary school increases a girl's future wages by 10-20% and an extra year of secondary by 15-25%." Reiterating the point, Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, added: "Seventy per cent of a woman's salary goes back into her family.
The one exception, Mr. Dobbie and Mr. Fryer wrote, was borderline students: "Attending an exam school increases rigor of the marginal student's high school course work, and makes the marginal student more likely to graduate from high school with an advanced diploma".
While males' probability of being enrolled in secondary school increases by 3.4 percentage points, females' probability increases by only 1.3%, less than half of the probability for boys.
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