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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 …
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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 …
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-group influences on the propensity to engage in five different activities: drug use, alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking, church going … characteristics, family background variables, and several measures of parental behavior and involvement in the youth's daily life …
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I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol consumption among male peers. This relationship is robust to school fixed effects, cannot be explained...
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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, self-esteem and conscientiousness at age 15-16, on the incidence of health behaviours such...
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