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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 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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Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors : Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland

Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey - 2015

This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore...

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Insurance Expansions and Children’s Use of Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Hamersma, Sarah - 2018

specialty substance use disorder (SUD) treatment use among children ages 12 to 18. We examine both private and public expansions … State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Private expansions are generated by state laws that compel private …, lead to increases in admissions to treatment and increased insurance coverage among children in treatment. After public …

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Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement

Scholder, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler - 2014

and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic … attainment, but there is a strong social gradient in maternal drinking, with mothers in higher socio-economic groups more likely …

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Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in the Demand for Children

Ashraf, Nava - 2020

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which an initial gender gap in ideal fertility prevents effective communication between spouses about the costs of childbearing incurred by women. This mechanism is likely to further widen the spousal...

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Teen Births Keep American Crime High

Hunt, Jennifer - 2003

slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I …

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