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transition from adolescence to adulthood, we estimate a multinomial logit model to capture the effect of the timing of first … employment for young women and that women whose first birth occurs during adolescence largely select into low-quality informal …
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This paper reports on a lab-in-the-field experiment that investigates differences in rule-violating behavior between the inmates of juvenile detention centers and regular adolescents from primary schools of similar age in response to three specific contexts: (i) when they interact with ingroup...
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deprivation only during adolescence were equally likely to become a teenage parent and were more likely to drop out of school …
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The 2016 report of the European Transport Safety Council claims that EU safety progress has come to a standstill. This study aims at deepening the knowledge of factors that influence adolescents’ risky behavior on the road. Bayesian Networks offer a promising new way to looking at the issue....
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We investigate how household disadvantage affects the time use of 15-18 year-olds using 2003-2006 data from the American Time Use Survey. Applying competing-risk hazard models, we distinguish between the incidence and duration of activities and incorporate the daily time constraint. We find that...
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This study investigates a neglected determinant of adolescents' dietary behaviors: the within-class age difference, in isolation from confounding factors (e.g., absolute age, season-of-birth, and countries' specific characteristics, such as expected age at school start). We study a multi-country...
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, which commences at the period of adolescence. These occupational or vocational preferences are shaped or crystallized …
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We provide first evidence that peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We use data from Add … suggesting that family can function as a buffer. Our findings underscore the importance of peer relationships in adolescence with …
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