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Better together? : social networks in truancy and the targeting of treatment
Bennett, Magdalena; Bergman, Peter - 2018
Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785802
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Migrant Adolescent Girls in Urban Slums India : Aspirations, Opportunities and Challenges
Agarwal, Siddharth; Jones, Eleri; Verma, Shabnam - 2017
Background: Many adolescents grow-up with inadequate access to opportunities facing challenges and risks. This study focuses on recently migrant adolescent girls in India’s fast growing urban slum population for whom multiple vulnerabilities intersect, including gender, poverty and migrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122957
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Religiosity, smoking and other risky behaviors
Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - 2022
relates to risky behaviors like smoking, drinking, and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166804
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Religiosity, smoking and other risky behaviors
Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - In: Journal of economics, management and religion 3 (2022) 1, pp. 1-27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190061
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Religiosity, smoking and other addictive behaviors
Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - 2021
relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533854
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Do minimum legal tobacco purchase age laws work?
Yörük, Ceren Ertan; Yörük, Barış K. - 2014
(MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey … the MLTPA on several indicators of smoking among youth is minor and often insignificant. However, we also show that … granting legal access to cigarettes and tobacco products at the MLTPA leads to an increase in several indicators of smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371917
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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020
We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and … approaches that being genetically predisposed to smoking and smoking regularly in adolescence reduces schooling attainment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239296
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Better together? : social networks in truancy and the targeting of treatment
Bennett, Magdalena; Bergman, Peter - 2018
Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788874
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Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment
Bennett, Magdalena - 2018
Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929095
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Do Minimum Legal Tobacco Purchase Age Laws Work?
Yörük, Ceren Ertan; Yoruk, Baris - 2021
(MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey … the MLTPA on several indicators of smoking among youth is minor and often insignificant. However, we also show that … granting legal access to cigarettes and tobacco products at the MLTPA leads to an increase in several indicators of smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315587