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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2004

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development,...

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Lead exposure and behavior : effects on antisocial and risky behavior among children and adolescents

Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 53 (2015) 3, pp. 1580-1605

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The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems : Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey

Chatterji, Pinka - 2000

This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …

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The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Child Human Capital Development

Frank, Richard G. - 2009

abuse on children born to mothers in the initial cohort of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a national … home and parental mental health can have notable impacts on skill development in children that may affect the stock of … household survey of high school students aged 14-22 in 1979. We follow 1587 children aged 1-5 in 1987, observing them throughout …

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Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs : Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions

Reichman, Nancy E. - 2006

We examine the extent to which infant health production functions are sensitive to model specification and measurement error. We focus on the importance of typically unobserved but theoretically important variables (TUVs), other non-standard covariates (NSCs), input reporting, and...

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The Role of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Determining Physical Fights and Weapon Carrying by Teenagers

Markowitz, Sara - 2000

violent behaviors as measured by physical fighting, carrying a gun, or carrying other types of weapons. Simple OLS estimation …

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I Did What Last Night?!!! Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors and Substance Use

Grossman, Michael - 2002

This purpose of this paper is to examine the causal impact of substance use on risky sexual behaviors by teenagers. Risky sexual behaviors, which include unprotected sex and multiple partners, are highly correlated with alcohol and illicit drug use, although the nature of the causal relationship...

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Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Consumption : Is There Really a Gateway Effect?

Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - 1998

This research analyzes the contemporaneous and intertemporal relationship between the demands for alcohol and marijuana by youths and young adults. A general theory of multi-commodity habit formation is developed and tested using data from the 1983-1984 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey...

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Birth order and risky adolescent behavior

Argys, Laura M.; Rees, Daniel I.; Averett, Susan; … - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 44 (2006) 2, pp. 215-233

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Mental illness and the demand for alcohol, cocaine, and cigarettes

Saffer, Henry; Dave, Dhaval - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 43 (2005) 2, pp. 229-246

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