McVicar D. Local level Incapacity Benefits rolls in Britain: correlates and convergence, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. There is considerable variation across British Local Authority Districts in the proportion of the working-age population claiming incapacity benefits, ranging from 2% in Hart to 16% in...

type="main" xml:id="obes12030-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article estimates peer influences on the alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use of UK adolescents. We present evidence of large, positive and statistically significant peer effects in all three behaviours when classmates are taken as the reference...</p>

Although it is widely believed that one of the key factors influencing whether an adolescent smokes or not is the smoking behaviour of his or her peers, empirical evidence on the magnitude of such peer effects, and even on their existence, is mixed. This existing evidence comes from a range of...

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