Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use … also initiates intercourse, holding constant family and individual factors. Similar effects are also present for smoking …

birth. Our work suggests that connecting youth personally with the experiences of teen parents is a promising avenue for …

We analyzed cigarette smoking among people aged 15 - 24 in approximately 90,000 households in the 1992 - 1999 U ….S. Current Population Surveys. We modeled social influence as an informational externality, in which each young person's smoking … informs her peers about its coolness.' The resulting family smoking game,' with each sibling's smoking endogenous, may have …

reduced form models to examine the relationship between substance use and sexual behaviors by gender. Data come from the Youth …

peer effects in smoking. We address the endogeneity of peers by looking at the impact of workplace smoking bans on spousal … and peer group smoking. Using these bans as an instrument, we find that individuals whose spouses smoke are 40 percent … smoking bans and individual income becomes stronger at higher levels of aggregation. This social multiplier could explain the …

school to instrument the influence of peer smoking on an individual's own smoking behavior. We argue that this design … alleviates many problems inherent to estimating peer effects. Using this approach, we find the relationship between peer smoking … and individual smoking to be larger than that estimated by prior studies. Further, we explore the reduced form …

We study risky behavior of adolescents. Concentrating on smoking and alcohol use, we structurally estimate a dynamic …

This paper estimates the effects of friends' health behaviors, smoking and drinking, on own health behaviors for …