Risky behavior among youths : an economic analysis /
Every day young people engage in risky behaviors that affect not only their immediate well-being but their long-term health and safety. These well-honed essays apply diverse economic analyses to a wide range of unsafe activities, including teen drinking and driving, smoking, drug use, unprotected se...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2001.
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Colección: | National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Risky behavior among youths: some issues from behavioral economics / Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
- Youth smoking in the United States: evidence and implications / Jonathan Gruber and Jonathan Zinman
- Teens and traffic safety / Thomas S. Dee and William N. Evans
- The sexual activity and birth-control use of American Teenagers / Phillip B. Levine
- Explaining the rise in youth suicide / David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, and Karen E. Norberg
- Marijuana and youth / Rosalie Liccardo Pacula [and others]
- The determinants of juvenile crime / Steven D. Levitt and Lance Lochner
- Environment and persistence in youthful drinking patterns / Philip J. Cook and Michael J. Moore
- Dropout and enrollment trends in the postwar period: what went wrong in the 1970s? / David Carl and Thomas Lemieux
- Youths at nutrition risk: malnourished or misnourished? / Jay Bhattacharya and Janet Currie.