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The Perceived Social Rejection of Sexual Minorities: Substance Use and Unprotected Sexual Intercourse

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

This study presents associations between the perceived social rejection of sexual minorities and tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis consumption and unprotected sexual intercourse in the capital of Greece, Athens. This is the first Greek study to evaluate the concept of the minority stress theory on...

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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years

Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James; Ukert, Benjamin; … - 2018

utilization along several dimensions, but also increased risky drinking. These results are driven by the private portions of the …

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Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health

Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James; Ukert, Benjamin; … - 2017

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine...

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A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away

van Ours, Jan C. - 2002

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

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It wasn't me, it was them! Social influence in risky behavior by adolescents

Clark, Andrew E.; Lohéac, Youenn - 2005

Many years of concerted policy effort in Western countries has not prevented young people from experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social interactions make consumption sticky. We use detailed panel data from the Add Health survey to examine...

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A pint a day raises a man’s pay; but smoking blows that gain away

Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822520

"It Wasn’t Me, It Was Them!" Social Influence in Risky Behavior by Adolescents

Clark, Andrew E.; Lohéac, Youenn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Many years of concerted policy effort in Western countries has not prevented young people from experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social interactions make consumption "sticky". We use detailed panel data from the Add Health survey to examine...

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Gender differences in smoking behavior

Bauer, Thomas K.; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - 2006

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behavior between men and …

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Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior

Bauer, Thomas; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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Smoking persistence across countries: an analysis using semi-parametric dynamic panel data models with selectivity

Christelis, Dimitris; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - 2009

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … selectivity. We find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is in general much smaller when unobserved individual …

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