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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies : Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young - 2011

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to Their Sense of Control?

Baron, Juan D. - 2011

This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133598

Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

transitions to inactivity and public assistance, while youth reports of financial stresses are associated with earlier nest … associated with youth making later transitions. Overall, financial stress and conflict have independent effects on youths …

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Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior

Anderson, D. Mark - 2012

While the contemporaneous association between mental health problems and criminal behavior has been explored in the literature, the long-term consequences of such problems, depression in particular, have received much less attention. In this paper, we examine the effect of depression during...

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Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use

Anderson, D. Mark - 2013

dispensaries operating within 1,000 feet of schools, parks and playgrounds. Using data from the national and state Youth Risk … Behavior Surveys, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and the Treatment Episode Data Set, we estimate the …

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Cigarette Taxes and Teen Marijuana Use

Anderson, D. Mark - 2020

The spillover effect of cigarette taxes on youth marijuana use has been the subject of intense public debate. Opponents … experts often claim that because tobacco is a "gateway" drug, higher cigarette taxes will deter youth marijuana use. Using … data from the National and State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) for the period 1991-2017, we explore the relationship …

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Marriage Equality Laws and Youth Mental Health

Anderson, D. Mark - 2019

-identifying youths. Using data from the State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1999-2017, we explore the relationship between …

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A Family Affair : Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents

Bubonya, Melisa - 2014

This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives' job...

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The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents

Antrobus, Emma - 2018

We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing...

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Taking Chances : The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link between family welfare history and risk taking disappears,...

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