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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 Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems : Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey
Chatterji, Pinka - 2000
This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471069
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The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Child Human Capital Development
Frank, Richard G. - 2009
abuse on children born to mothers in the initial cohort of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a national … home and parental mental health can have notable impacts on skill development in children that may affect the stock of … household survey of high school students aged 14-22 in 1979. We follow 1587 children aged 1-5 in 1987, observing them throughout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463336
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Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs : Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions
Reichman, Nancy E. - 2006
We examine the extent to which infant health production functions are sensitive to model specification and measurement error. We focus on the importance of typically unobserved but theoretically important variables (TUVs), other non-standard covariates (NSCs), input reporting, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466667
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The Role of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Determining Physical Fights and Weapon Carrying by Teenagers
Markowitz, Sara - 2000
violent behaviors as measured by physical fighting, carrying a gun, or carrying other types of weapons. Simple OLS estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471276
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I Did What Last Night?!!! Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors and Substance Use
Grossman, Michael - 2002
This purpose of this paper is to examine the causal impact of substance use on risky sexual behaviors by teenagers. Risky sexual behaviors, which include unprotected sex and multiple partners, are highly correlated with alcohol and illicit drug use, although the nature of the causal relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469465
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Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Consumption : Is There Really a Gateway Effect?
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - 1998
This research analyzes the contemporaneous and intertemporal relationship between the demands for alcohol and marijuana by youths and young adults. A general theory of multi-commodity habit formation is developed and tested using data from the 1983-1984 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472468
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Lethal Unemployment Bonuses? Substitution and Income Effects on Substance Abuse, 2020-21
Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Marginal prices fell, and disposable incomes increased, for drug and alcohol consumers during the pandemic. Most of the amount, timing, and composition of the 240,000 deaths involving alcohol and drugs since early 2020 can be explained by income effects and category-specific price changes. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938688
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Assessing the Effects of Medical Marijuana Laws on Marijuana and Alcohol Use : The Devil is in the Details
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - 2013
This paper sheds light on previous inconsistencies identified in the literature regarding the relationship between medical marijuana laws (MML) and recreational marijuana use by closely examining the importance of policy dimensions (registration requirements, home cultivation, dispensaries) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459359
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Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors : Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland
Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey - 2015
This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457716