There are a host of potentially risky behaviors in which youth engage, which have important implications for both their … well being as youth and their life prospects. The past decade has seen dramatic shifts in the intensity with which youths … pursue these risky activities: for example, youth homicide fell by 40%; teen births decline by 20%; youth smoking rose by 33 …

determinants of the youth smoking decision. We explore four aspects of this decision. First, we consider the demographic correlates … youth; indeed, increasingly over time youth smoking is taking place among white, suburban youth with college educated … 25 and 50% of the rise in youth smoking in the 1990s will persist into adulthood for this cohort; rough calculations …

school students are participating in these programs. The first data source, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 …

have declined. And for every youth suicide completion, there are nearly 400 suicide attempts. This paper examines the … dynamics of youth suicide attempts and completions, and reaches three conclusions. First, we suggest that many suicide attempts … by youths can be viewed as a strategic action on the part of the youth to resolve conflicts within oneself or with others …

significantly to the trends in youth marijuana use between 1982 and 1998, particularly during the contraction in use from 1982 to …This paper contains the first estimates of the price sensitivity of the prevalence of youth marijuana use. Survey data … 1992. Similarly, changes in youth perceptions of the harms associated with regular marijuana use had a substantial impact …

work of Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982) on reputation in repeated games, we show that parents have … Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort (NLSY79), exploiting the availability of repeated observations on young women (daughters) and of …

After steadily declining over the previous 15 years, youth smoking began to rise precipitously in 1992, and by 1997 had … policies on youth smoking in the 1990s, drawing on three separate data sets. I find that the most important policy determinant … of youth smoking, particularly among older teens, is prices. Prices are a significant and sizeable determinant of smoking …

unobserved characteristics. Data come from the National School-Based Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, which are nationally …