Peer effects, unobserved factors and risk behaviours
Subtitle: an analysis of alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents
By: by Rosa Duarte, José-Juliǹ Escario, José Alberto Molina.
Contributors: Escario, José-Julin.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2589; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2589
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Alcoholism.; School attendance.; Teenagers.
Description: "The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce unobserved individual effects that can influence both behaviours. Empirically, our paper develops an analysis where, after controlling for the existence of unobserved individual factors affecting both decisions, we test for peer influences. Our results first show evidence that alcohol abuse and truancy share unobserved factors affecting both decisions, and then confirm the existence of significant peer group influences on these two deviant behaviours"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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