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Numerous studies have documented a strong correlation between substance use and teen sexual behavior, and this empirical relationship has given rise to a widespread belief that substance use causes teens to engage in risky sex. This causal link is often used by advocates to justify policies...
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This paper applies the rational addiction model, which emphasizes the interdependency of past, current, and future consumption of an addictive good, to the demand for cocaine by young adults in the Monitoring the Future Panel. The price of cocaine is added to this survey from the System to...
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several measures of limits on youth access to tobacco products are added to the survey data. Ordered probit methods are used … of demand is -0.65. In addition, strong limits on youth access to smokeless tobacco products are found to be effective in …
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This paper is an empirical exploration of the dynamic relationship between health and cognitive development in a longitudinal data set compiled from two nationally representative cross-sections of children. Our results indicate that there is feedback both from health to cognitive development and...
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reduced form models to examine the relationship between substance use and sexual behaviors by gender. Data come from the Youth …
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had been 21 in all states of the U.S. These figures indicate that, if reductions in youth motor vehicle accident deaths …
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sanctions for drug possession and sale on youth drug use. Data on cocaine and marijuana use by high school seniors are taken … youth cocaine demand is sensitive to price, with average past year and past month cocaine demand elasticities of -1.28 and … marijuana have a negative and statistically significant impact on youth cocaine and marijuana use. However, the magnitude of …
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variety of outcomes for youth. These include alcohol consumption, excessive consumption, motor vehicle accident mortality, and …
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This paper investigates the health of white adolescents, focusing particularly on the roles of family background and preventive medical care. This emphasis is motivated in part by our desire to study adolescent health in the context of the nature-nurture controversy. The findings indicate first,...
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This paper contains the first estimates of the price sensitivity of the prevalence of youth marijuana use. Survey data … significantly to the trends in youth marijuana use between 1982 and 1998, particularly during the contraction in use from 1982 to … 1992. Similarly, changes in youth perceptions of the harms associated with regular marijuana use had a substantial impact …
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