Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 988
Cover Image
Health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young adults
Yörük, Barış K. - 2015
adults using the confidential version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Before the … drinking, especially for males, but does not have any significant impact on smoking or marijuana use habits of young adults …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310000
Cover Image
Better together? : social networks in truancy and the targeting of treatment
Bennett, Magdalena; Bergman, Peter - 2018
Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788874
Cover Image
Creating cohesive communities : a youth camp experiment in India
Ghosh, Arkadev; Kundu, Prerna; Lowe, Matt - 2024
communities. We study the potential for youth camps—integrating rituals, sports, and civics training—to strengthen intergroup … minority, while higher intergroup contact backfires among Hindus but not Muslims. Our findings demonstrate that inclusive youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015070143
Cover Image
Loss of peers and individual worker performance : evidence from H-1B visa denials
Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Doran, Kirk B.; Marinoni, Astrid; … - 2022
We study how restrictive immigration policies and the unexpected loss of peers affect the performance of skilled migrants, exploiting the unexpected increased denials of H-1B visa extensions in the United States beginning in 2017. We find that employees who lost peers of the same ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473268
Cover Image
Do minimum legal tobacco purchase age laws work?
Yörük, Ceren Ertan; Yörük, Barış K. - 2014
the MLTPA on several indicators of smoking among youth is minor and often insignificant. However, we also show that … are designed to restrict youth access to tobacco are only effective in reducing smoking participation among certain groups … (MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371917
Cover Image
Smoking and social interaction
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Siemers, Lars (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496781
Cover Image
Peer effects in risk taking
Lahno, Amrei M.; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2012 - This version: Dec 20, 2012, First version: July 13, 2012
This paper examines the effect of peers on individual risk taking. In the absence of informational motives, we investigate why social utility concerns may drive peer effects. We test for two main channels: utility from payoff differences and from conforming to the peer. We show experimentally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691154
Cover Image
Conditional gender peer effects?
Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag; Bonesrønning, Hans - 2014
While the current empirical literature on peer group effects in schools highlights that credible causal peer effects cannot be estimated unless parental sorting is taken into account, the present paper highlights that causal peer effects might be conditional on the learning environment in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229881
Cover Image
Relational altruism and giving in social groups
Scharf, Kimberly A.; Smith, Sarah - 2016
Much fundraising is done by individuals within existing social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we demonstrate (i) a positive relationship between social group size and the number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the size of individual donations; (iii) no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489355
Cover Image
Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the LAB
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2003
Field evidence suggests that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that avoids these problems. The main design feature is that each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507945