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The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on US Census data, the Current Population Survey, the...
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significant reductions in academic performance, particularly for the highest-performing students. This suggests that the negative …
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Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...
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school students during the 1990s and 2000s. The main innovations are explicitly controlling for time-invariant preferences … sex than protective behavior. Effects are much larger for the small fraction of students that has not been taught about …
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age 18-24 four-year college students. For having sex, overall or without condoms, large and significant positive … directly leads to risky sex. Some binge drinking-induced promiscuity seems to occur among students, especially males, involved … in long-term relationships. Effects are concentrated among non-Hispanic whites and are not apparent for students in two …
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smokeless tobacco and cigar use among college students. We do not find, however, any statistically significant association … students, a finding that is at odds with previous research on high school students …
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18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior … time. Particularly notable is that behavior by underage students appears to drive the relationship …
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This paper examines a natural experiment in which students at a large state university were randomly assigned roommates … students who drink frequently are particularly influenced by frequent-drinking roommates, substance-free housing programs could … possibly even grows over time. In contrast, students' college GPA is not influenced by roommates' high school grades, admission …
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This paper investigates whether college students' response to alcohol price and policies differ according to their … Alcohol Study (CAS). Students drinking behavior is classified on the basis of the number of drinks they typically consume on a …. We find that students who faced a higher money price for alcohol are less likely to make the transition from abstainer to …
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College Alcohol Study (CAS) shows that marijuana use among college students rose 22 percent between 1993 and 1999. Are current … question by investigating the relationship between the demands for alcohol and marijuana for college students using data from …
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