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Understanding teenage fertility, cohabitation, and marriage : the case of Peru
Favara, Marta; Lavado, Pablo; Sanchez, Alan - 2016
In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data...
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Housing unaffordability and adolescent subjective well-being in China
Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2022
subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adolescents aged 10-15. Using a combined methodology of propensity score matching and … depression, with more pronounced impacts among older adolescents (aged 13-15), those from migrant and urban families, and those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259775
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Higher order risk preferences: new experimental measures, determinants and field behavior
Schneider, Sebastian O.; Sutter, Matthias - 2020
with 658 adolescents. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that higher order risk preferences - particularly … prudence - are strongly related to adolescents' field behavior, including their financial decision making, eco … encompassing perspective and clarifies which orders of risk preferences can help understand field behavior of adolescents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285580
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The effect of parental educational expectations on adolescent subjective well-being and the moderating role of perceived academic pressure : longitudinal evidence for China
Lu, Haiyang; Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2019
moderating role of the academic pressures that these adolescents perceive. Even though we find robust evidence for a positive … addition, the facts that the benefits of PEE are greater for female adolescents and those from immigrant, one-child, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146896
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Parental unemployment and adolescents' academic performance
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
, there exists no multivariate study which has assessed the association between parental unemployment and adolescents' grades … the grades of adolescents were associated with parental unemployment. The exogeneity of parental unemployment with respect … to adolescents' grade was confirmed. The analysis revealed that parental unemployment was associated with a decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013541897
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High speed internet and the widening gender gap in adolescent mental health : evidence from hospital records
Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; … - 2022
Increases in mental health problems among adolescents have been concurrent with increased use of digital media, with … discharge diagnoses of behavioral and mental health cases among adolescents. We find a positive and significant impact on girls … explain the observed widening gender gap in mental health among adolescents and are robust to various sensitivity tests. …
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The oral contraceptive pill and adolescents' mental health
Costa-Ramón, Ana; Daysal, N. Meltem; … - 2023
variation in primary care providers' tendency to prescribe the pill to adolescents, unrelated to patient characteristics. Being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311614
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Teen social interactions and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2023
Adolescence is an important developmental period when teens begin spending less time with their parents and more time with friends and others outside their households as they transition into adulthood. Using the 2017-2021 American Time Use Surveys and the 2012, 2013, and 2021 Well-being Modules,...
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Economic recession, parental unemployment and adolescents' health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes in Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two …-related quality of life and increased adverse mental health symptoms for adolescents. Moreover, the 2011-2013 period, a period of … for adolescents. In addition, parental unemployment proved more detrimental to adolescents' health-related quality of life …
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HIV and fertility in Africa : first evidence from population based surveys
Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - 2009
The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that...
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