behaviors, in particular substance use, risky sexual behavior, and violence among adolescents in 15 Latin American and Caribbean … associated with significantly reduced problem behaviors in adolescents. That said, in the Caribbean the prevalence of health risk … behaviors in adolescents is higher and engaged parents is lower than in Latin America, and the correlation between engaged …

In light of the dramatic rise in mental health disorders among adolescents seen in the past decade across the world … for adolescents. Exploiting educational administrative data on ten cohorts of state-educated secondary school students, we …

ethnic composition of the groups they join. We test our predictions using English census data together with the 'Longitudinal …

influence adolescents’ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities … increased. This effect appears to be larger in municipalities with a higher proportion of adolescents between 14 and 15 years of …