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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
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Catholic schools and bad behavior
Mocan, Naci; Scafidi, Benjamin; Tekin, Erdal - 2002
Although there is a sizeable literature of the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, there is a dearth of studies of the impact of school sector on nonacademic outcomes. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that...
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Child access prevention laws and juvenile firearm-related homicides
Anderson, D. Mark; Sabia, Joseph J.; Tekin, Erdal - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011953629
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Catholic schools and bad behavior
Mocan, Naci; Scafidi, Benjamin; Tekin, Erdal - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001699413
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Teen smoking and birth outcomes
Walker, Mary Beth; Tekin, Erdal; Wallace, Sally - In: Southern economic journal 75 (2009) 3, pp. 892-907
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci; Tekin, Erdal - In: The review of economics and statistics 92 (2010) 1, pp. 15-30
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Youth depression and future criminal behavior
Anderson, D. Mark; Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal - 2012
While the contemporaneous association between mental health problems and criminal behavior has been explored in the literature, the long-term consequences of such problems, depression in particular, have received much less attention. In this paper, we examine the effect of depression during...
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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012
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Food prices and body fatness among youths
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2013
In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), among youths ages 12 through 18. The...
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Food prices and body fatness among youths
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766795