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Anderson, D. Mark - 2020

The spillover effect of cigarette taxes on youth marijuana use has been the subject of intense public debate. Opponents … experts often claim that because tobacco is a "gateway" drug, higher cigarette taxes will deter youth marijuana use. Using … data from the National and State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) for the period 1991-2017, we explore the relationship …

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Marriage Equality Laws and Youth Suicidal Behaviors

Anderson, D. Mark - 2019

-identifying youths. Using data from the State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, we explore the relationship between marriage equality and …

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Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use

Anderson, D. Mark - 2014

Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and the Treatment Episode Data Set, we estimate …

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Religion and Risky Health Behaviors among U.S. Adolescents and Adults

Fletcher, Jason - 2013

Recent studies analyzing the effects of religion on various economic, social, health and political outcomes have been largely associational. Although some attempts have been made to establish causation using instrument variable (IV) or difference-in-difference (DID) methods, the instruments and...

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Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior

Anderson, D. Mark - 2012

While the contemporaneous association between mental health problems and criminal behavior has been explored in the literature, the long-term consequences of such problems, depression in particular, have received much less attention. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent...

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