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Salud, interculturalidad y comportamiento de riesgo
GRADE - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)
-infantil en el Perú”, Martín Valdivia pone énfasis en la etnicidad y las variables culturales, en función de su relación causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650342
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Determinants of financial literacy and behavioral bias among adolescents
Aschenwald, Marco; Holzknecht, Armando; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2023
Building on cross-sectional data for Austrian high school students from fifth to twelfth grade, we investigate the correlations between socio-economic background variables and a comprehensive set of variables related to financial decision-making (i.e., financial knowledge, behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013483340
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Communication problems? : the role of parent-child communication for the subsequent health behavior of adolescents
Avdic, Daniel; Büyükdurmus, Tugba - 2015
behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may … reduces the smoking prevalence of adolescents by as much as 70%, irrespective of social background. More complex relationships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519179
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2021
" adolescents. Particularly striking are the reductions in cognitive test scores and increases in excess body weight predicted by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318383
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Is Teenage Motherhood Contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2011
There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, are likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177354
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care
Lopoo, Leonard M. - 2011
Mounting evidence shows that self-care produces deleterious consequences for adolescents in the U.S. Since descriptive … and adolescent self-care. Findings suggest that the adolescents of mothers who work full-time spend an additional 43 … minutes per week in self-care compared to the adolescents of mothers who work part-time. Further, a standard deviation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183322
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior
Aughinbaugh, Alison; Gittleman, Maury - 2011
This paper examines the impact of maternal employment during a child's first three years and during adolescence on his or her decisions to engage in a range of risky behaviors: smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, using marijuana and other drugs, engaging in sex and committing crimes. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088654
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Understanding teenage fertility, cohabitation, and marriage : the case of Peru
Favara, Marta; Lavado, Pablo; Sanchez, Alan - 2016
In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543962
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Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru
Favara, Marta; Sanchez, Alan - In: IZA journal of labor & development 6 (2017) 3, pp. 1-40
We use a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to investigate the relationship between psychosocial competencies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655852
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Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage : The Case of Peru
Favara, Marta - 2016
In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981496