Similar Search Results

A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away

Ours, Jan C. van - 2002

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410964

Tracking the herd with a shotgun - why do peers influence college major selection?

Insler, Michael A.; Rahman, Ahmed S.; Smith, Katherine A. - 2021

How do peers influence people's choices? We explore this fundamental question by exploiting unique data produced by, and a natural experiment conducted on, students from the United States Naval Academy (USNA). We develop a conceptual framework to highlight that individuals can emulate others for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519264

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/10011785802

Sinners or saints? : preachers' kids and risky health behaviors

Delaney, Jason; Winters, John V. - 2013

This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and zero-inflated count models to analyze the effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754769

Does daughter deficit promote parental substance use? : longitudinal evidence on smoking from rural China

Chen, Xi - 2017

market in China - affects their fathers' smoking behavior. We utilize two household longitudinal surveys as well as a random … subsample of the China Population Census to examine fathers' smoking in response to skewed sex ratios. Strikingly, fathers smoke … ratios among children and intense smoking among fathers. Considering worsening sex ratios and highly competitive marriage …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694826

Does domestic violence jeopardize the learning environment of peers within the school? : peer effects of exposure to domestic violence in urban Peru

Gutierrez, Italo A.; Molina, Oswaldo - 2020

This study builds on the findings of Carrell and Hoekstra (2010, 2018) by exploring the peer effects of domestic violence exposure over the academic attainment of secondary school students in Peru. However, we also study these peer effects over a novel set of outcomes: internalizing behaviors...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199151

Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020

I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316054

Rank, sex, drugs, and crime

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015

cohort composition within a school, we find a strong negative effect of a student's rank on the likelihood of smoking …, drinking, having unprotected sex, and engaging in physical fights. We further provide suggestive evidence that these results …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386816

More than a ban on smoking? : behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace

Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca; Zaccagni, Sarah - 2021

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and …), which introduced a WBS (in addition to a smoking ban on public places), and adopting a difference-in-differences (DiD … the ban in public places), we document three sets of findings. First, unlike previous studies (focusing on smoking bans in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517175

The perceived social rejection of sexual minorities : substance use and unprotected sexual intercourse

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

This study presents associations between the perceived social rejection of sexual minorities and tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis consumption and unprotected sexual intercourse in the capital of Greece, Athens. This is the first Greek study to evaluate the concept of the minority stress theory on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013261893

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last