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The Friendship Paradox and Systematic Biases in Perceptions and Social Norms

Jackson, Matthew O. - 2017

The 'friendship paradox' (Feld1991) refers to the fact that, on average, people have strictly fewer friends than their friends have. I show that this over-sampling of the most popular people amplifies behaviors that involve complementarities. People with more friends experience greater...

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The effect of non-cognitive traits on health behaviours in adolescence

Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2013

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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Peer effects and youth smoking in the European Global Youth Tobacco Survey

Nikaj, Silda - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 17 (2017) 3, pp. 219-238

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Peer effects in sexual initiation : separating demand and supply mechanisms

Richards-Shubik, Seth - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 663-702

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Peer effects in sexual initiation : separating demand and supply mechanisms

Richards-Shubik, Seth - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 663-702

Most work on social interactions studies a single, composite effect of interactions within a group. Yet in the case of sexual initiation, there are two distinct social mechanisms-peer-group norms and partner availability-with separate effects and different potential interventions. Here I develop...

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Gender and the Influence of Peer Alcohol Consumption on Adolescent Sexual Activity

Waddell, Glen R. - 2010

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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Peer Effects in Adolescent Cannabis Use : It's the Friends, Stupid

Moriarty, John; McVicar, Duncan; Higgins, Kathryn - 2012

This paper examines peer effects in adolescent cannabis use from several different reference groups, exploiting survey data that have many desirable properties and have not previously been used for this purpose. Treating the school grade as the reference group, and using both neighbourhood fixed...

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Smoking peer effects among adolescents : are popular teens more influential?

Robalino, Juan David - 2016

peer effects regarding cigarette smoking come from the smoking propensity of the 20% most popular kids, suggesting a … smoking propensity of the bottom 80% seems to have a negative influence on the probability of smoking in the long run (wave 3 … and 4). These results hint to the importance of knowing not only the smoking propensity within a school but also the place …

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Motives underlying the consumption of black market cigarettes among young people

Morkūnas, Mangirdas; Sirgėdaitė, Gabrielė - In: Forum for social economics 53 (2024) 1, pp. 53-75

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Smoking Peer Effects Among Adolescents : Are Popular Kids More Influential?

Robalino, Juan - 2016

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