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The spread of anti-trafficking policies : evidence from a new index

Cho, Seo-young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Leaving home : what economics has to say about the living arrangements of young Australians

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. (contributor) - 2008

Like their counterparts elsewhere, more young Australians than ever are delaying the move to establish residential independence from their parents. This paper reviews the developing economics literature surrounding young people's decisions to continue living in their parents' homes in order to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652688

Are young people’s educational outcomes linked to their sense of control?

Barón, Juan David; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2010

This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959574

Financial stress, family conflict, and youths’ successful transition to adult roles

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ribar, David C. - 2009

transitions to inactivity and public assistance, while youth reports of financial stresses are associated with earlier nest … associated with youth making later transitions. Overall, financial stress and conflict have independent effects on youths …

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Medical marijuana laws and teen marijuana use

Anderson, D. Mark; Hansen, Benjamin; Rees, Daniel I. - 2012

dispensaries operating within 1,000 feet of schools, parks and playgrounds. Using data from the national and state Youth Risk … Behavior Surveys, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and the Treatment Episode Data Set, we estimate the … leads to increased use of marijuana by teenagers. -- marijuana ; youth risky behavior ; medical marijuana laws …

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Youth depression and future criminal behavior

Anderson, D. Mark; Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal - 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. In this paper, we examine the effect of depression during...

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"High"-school : the relationship between early marijuana use and educational outcomes

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Trinh; … - 2013

We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...

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Child access prevention laws, youth gun carrying, and school shootings

Anderson, D. Mark; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2016

control policies on youth gun carrying or school violence. Using data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) for the …

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A family affair : job loss and the mental health of spouses and adolescents

Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Wooden, Mark - 2014

This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives' job...

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Taking chances : the effect of growing up on welfare on the risky behavior of young people

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ryan, Christopher J.; … - 2009

We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link between family welfare history and risk taking disappears,...

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