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Risky Behavior Among Youths : An Economic Analysis

Gruber, Jonathan - 2000

There are a host of potentially risky behaviors in which youth engage, which have important implications for both their … well being as youth and their life prospects. The past decade has seen dramatic shifts in the intensity with which youths … pursue these risky activities: for example, youth homicide fell by 40%; teen births decline by 20%; youth smoking rose by 33 …

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Cigarette Taxes and the Transition from Youth to Adult Smoking : Smoking Initiation, Cessation, and Participation

DeCicca, Philip - 2008

Policy makers continue to advocate and adopt cigarette taxes as a public health measure. Most previous individual-level empirical studies of cigarette demand are essentially static analyses. In this study, we use longitudinal data to examine the dynamics of young adults' decisions about smoking...

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Should Sixth Grade be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior

Cook, Philip J. - 2006

Using administrative data on public school students in North Carolina, we find that sixth grade students attending middle schools are much more likely to be cited for discipline problems than those attending elementary school. That difference remains after adjusting for the socioeconomic and...

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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2004

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development,...

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The Influence of Peer Genotypes and Behavior on Smoking Outcomes : Evidence from Add Health

Sotoudeh, Ramina - 2017

We introduce a novel use of genetic data for studying social influences on behavior: Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we deploy the distribution of genotypes in a given grade within a school to instrument the influence of peer smoking on...

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Lead Exposure and Behavior : Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents

Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw - 2014

It is well known that exposure to lead has numerous adverse effects on behavior and development. Using data on two cohorts of children from the NLSY, this paper investigates the effect of early childhood lead exposure on behavior problems from childhood through early adulthood. I find large...

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Estimating the Effects of Friendship Networks on Health Behaviors of Adolescents

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012

This paper estimates the effects of friends' health behaviors, smoking and drinking, on own health behaviors for adolescents while controlling for the effects of correlated unobservables between those friends. Specifically, the effect of friends' health behaviors is identified by comparing...

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Laws and Norms

Benabou, Roland - 2011

Incorporating agents' imperfect knowledge of the distribution of preferences opens up to analysis several new questions. The first is social psychologists' practice of "norms-based interventions", namely campaigns and messages that seek to alter people's perceptions of what constitutes "normal"...

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Moral Boundaries

Enke, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article reviews the growing economics literature that studies the politico-economic impacts of heterogeneity in moral boundaries across individuals and cultures. The so-called universalism-versus-particularism cleavage has emerged as a main organizing principle behind various salient...

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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation

Kane, Edward J. - 1997

Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating financial institutions. Altruistic public-benefits theories treat rules as governmental instruments for increas- ing fairness and efficiency across society as a whole....

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