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Young adults often make bad choices when their peers are present, due to reasons not fully understood. In this paper, using an incentive compatible experiment, we investigate whether: (1) young people's willingness to accept known and unknown risks changes in the presence of a person of the same...
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Relative to adults, adolescents make more welfare-decreasing decisions, especially in the presence of peers. The consequences of these decisions result in substantial individual and societal losses in terms of lives lost, injury, hospitalization costs, and foregone opportunities. In this paper,...
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betting may, in the long run, predict sports betting behavior and gambling-related problems. This study, therefore, examined … the influence of gender, age, sports betting knowledge and peer-based gambling on attitudes toward sports betting among … demographics and measures of attitudes toward sports betting, sports betting knowledge and perception of peer gambling behavior was …
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parents’ and friends’ gambling habits affect teenagers’ tendency to hide their gambling activities from their parents. We use … reported having actively gambled (N=5,490). We find that parents’ and friends’ gambling habits have opposing effects on … teenagers’ deception tendencies. While having gambling parents reduces deception, teenagers with gambling friends tend to hide …
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parents’ and friends’ gambling habits affect teenagers’ tendency to hide their gambling activities from their parents. We use … reported having actively gambled (N=5,490). We find that parents’ and friends’ gambling habits have opposing effects on … teenagers’ deception tendencies. While having gambling parents reduces deception, teenagers with gambling friends tend to hide …
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quality of youth employment in Cameroon. The study uses data from the Cameroonian Household Survey (CHS 4) carried out by the …
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Data on contestants' choices in Italian Game Show Affari Tuoi are analysed in a way that separates the effect of risk attitude (preferences) from that of beliefs concerning the amount of money that will be offered to contestants in future rounds. The most important issue addressed in the paper...
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