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The Effects of Family Stressors on Substance Use Initiation in Adolescence
Fletcher, Jason M.; Sindelar, Jody L. - 2010
-economic factors. We examine the extent to which family stresses influence the timing of initiation of smoking and drinking. Using … family stressors when young increases the likelihood of initiating tobacco and alcohol use, with much of the impact … to significantly overestimate the impact of family stress on substance use. Our approach helps to move the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188162
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When things do not change : non-intact families and adolescents' risks of substance use across 30 European countries and two decades
Guetto, Raffaele; Morabito, Maria Francesca; Benedetti, … - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046756
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Planned Treatment and Outcomes in Residential Youth Care: Evidence from Sweden
Lindqvist, Erik - 2010
A recurring theme in evaluations of Swedish residential youth care is that treatment is often unplanned. In this paper, I show that planned treatment is strongly positively associated with treatment outcomes. In the short term, teenagers with planned treatment are less likely to experience a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320332
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Planned treatment and outcomes in residential youth care : evidence from Sweden
Lindqvist, Erik - 2010
A recurring theme in evaluations of Swedish residential youth care is that treatment is often unplanned. In this paper, I show that planned treatment is strongly positively associated with treatment outcomes. In the short term, teenagers with planned treatment are less likely to experience a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969230
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Rank, sex, drugs, and crime
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in risky behaviors. Using longitudinal data from representative US high schools, and exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the cohort composition within a school, we find a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386816
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Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime
Elsner, Benjamin - 2015
In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in risky behaviors. Using longitudinal data from representative US high schools, and exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the cohort composition within a school, we find a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012032
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Discontinuities in the age-victimization profile and the determinants of victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; … - 2021 - This version: December 02, 2021
Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both genders at 16 and 9% (15%) for males (females) at 18. These results are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799475
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The Effect of Religiosity on Adolescent Risky Behaviors
Mendolia, Silvia - 2018
set of adolescent, school, and family characteristics, including achievements in standardized test scores at age 11 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917087
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Discontinuities in the age-victimization profile and the determinants of victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; … - 2021
Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both genders at 16 and 9% (15%) for males (females) at 18. These results are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745418
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Physical Dating Violence Among College Students in Chile
Lehrer, Jocelyn A.; Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Zhao, Zhenxiang; … - 2021
Dating violence is a serious public health concern both per se and because victimization in the young adult years can be a precursor to more severe incidents of domestic violence later, in the context of cohabitation or marriage. To date, no quantitative studies have examined dating violence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317111