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behavior using a sample of students in a major Irish University. It finds evidence of strong associations between amounts of … alcohol students consume and drinking of their fathers and older siblings. In contrast, it finds little evidence of impacts of … other non-drinking aspects of family background on students’ drinking. Parental and older sibling drinking appears to affect …
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This paper examines students’ perceptions of excessive drinking using statistical vignettes based on standard alcohol … heterogeneity in students’ perceptions of alcohol excess both in terms of their own self-rated excessiveness and in terms of their …
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"The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce...
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This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol – which is frequently found to be of positive sign – exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this effect is more prominent in the upper tail than...
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The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce...
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Das vorliegende Papier betrachtet den Zusammenhang des Trinkverhaltens von Eltern und dem späteren Alkoholkonsum ihrer …
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This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol – which is frequently found to be of positive sign – exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this effect is more prominent in the upper tail than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194588
The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they can lead directly to adult physical health...
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We provide novel evidence on the existence and the extent of intergenerational transmission of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from the Almalaurea data. Parental influence on two STEM...
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