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Mental health and abortions among young women: time-varying unobserved heterogeneity, health behaviors, and risky decisions

Janys, Lena; Siflinger, Bettina - 2021

In this paper, we provide causal evidence on abortions and risky health behaviors as determinants of mental health development among young women. Using administrative in- and outpatient records from Sweden, we apply a novel grouped fixed-effects estimator proposed by Bonhomme and Manresa (2015)...

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Causal effects of mental health treatment on education outcomes for youth in the justice system

Cuellar, Alison Evans; Dave, Dhaval - 2016

under which youth are assigned to behavioral treatment programs. The administrative data allow for a rich set of controls … for observed family- and youth-specific heterogeneity. In addition, the treatment assignment rules create discontinuous … thresholds among youth who are deemed eligible or not eligible for treatment, rules which the study exploits empirically to …

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Autopsy on an empire : understanding mortality in Russia and the former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth (contributor); … - 2005

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...

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Tobacco and alcohol : complements or substitutes? ; a structural model approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2008

The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

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Rational alcohol addiction : evidence from the Russian longitudinal monitoring survey

Baltagi, Badi H. (contributor); Geishecker, Ingo (contributor) - 2006

Alcohol consumption in Russia is legendary and has been reported to be the third leading cause of death in the former Soviet Union after heart disease and cancer. Are Russian alcohol consumers rational addicts? This paper uses eight rounds of a nationally representative Russian survey spanning...

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Peer effects, unobserved factors and risk behaviours : an analysis of alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents

Duarte, Rosa (contributor); … - 2007

"The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce...

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Love on the rocks : alcohol abuse and domestic violence in rural Mexico

Angelucci, Manuela (contributor) - 2007

What causes alcohol abuse and domestic violence and how can we stop them? These behaviors have multiple determinants, making the effects of changes in wife's and husband's income ambiguous. This paper estimates the effects of exogenous changes in wife's and husband's income on husband alcohol...

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Validating the use of vignettes for subjective threshold scales

Soest, Arthur van; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; … - 2007

Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different groups use systematically different response scales. Anchoring vignettes...

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Behavioural economics and drinking behaviour : preliminary results from an Irish college study

Delaney, Liam (contributor); Harmon, Colm (contributor); … - 2007

. The task of future research is to verify these results and assess causality using more detailed methods. …

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"It wasn't me, it was them!" - Social influence in risky behavior by adolescents

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); Lohéac, Youenn (contributor) - 2005

Many years of concerted policy effort in Western countries has not prevented young people from experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social interactions make consumption "sticky". We use detailed panel data from the Add Health survey to examine...

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