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Asymmetric Social Interaction in Economics : Cigarette Smoking Among Young People in the United States, 1992-1999

Harris, Jeffrey E.; González López-Valcárcel, Beatriz - 2004

We analyzed cigarette smoking among people aged 15 - 24 in approximately 90,000 households in the 1992 - 1999 U.S. Current Population Surveys. We modeled social influence as an informational externality, in which each young person's smoking informs her peers about its coolness.' The resulting...

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The Impact of Parental Involvement Laws on Minor Abortion

Joyce, Theodore J. - 2019

In this article, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the effect of parental involvement (PI) laws on the incidence of abortions to minors across a span of nearly three decades. We contribute to the extant literature on this topic in several ways. First, we explore differences in estimates of...

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Games Parents and Adolescents Play : Risky Behaviors, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers

Hao, Lingxin; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2022

This paper examines reputation formation in intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in a repeated two-stage game in which adolescents decide whether to give a teen birth or drop out of high school, and given adolescent decisions, the parent decides whether to house and...

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It Takes a Village : The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects

Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2021

As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We study interactions of parenting style and peer...

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The Effect of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Advertising on Youth Smoking

Saffer, Henry; Wakefield, Melanie; Terry-McElrath, Yvonne - 2021

This paper examines the effect of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) advertising on youth smoking. NRT advertising could decrease smoking by informing smokers that the product can make quitting easier and thus inducing more smokers to try and quit. However, a moral hazard is created because NRT...

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The Behavioral Dynamics of Youth Smoking

Gilleskie, Donna; Strumpf, Koleman S. - 2021

While individual smoking behavior persists over time, it is unknown whether this repeated behavior is due to addiction or individual propensities to smoke. To address this issue, we develop a dynamic empirical model of smoking decisions which explicitly accounts for the impact of previous...

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Youth Smoking in the U.S : Evidence and Implications

Gruber, Jonathan; Zinman, Jonathan - 2021

The one-third rise in the teen smoking rate in the 1990s has led to considerable interest in understanding the determinants of the youth smoking decision. We explore four aspects of this decision. First, we consider the demographic correlates of smoking participation, and find that smoking...

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Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Smoking Among Young Adults

Chaloupka, Frank J.; Wechsler, Henry - 2021

limits on the availability of tobacco products to youths) on cigarette smoking among youths and young adults are estimated … public smoking. Finally, limits on the availability of tobacco products to underage youths have no impact on college students …

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Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking

Chaloupka, Frank J.; Grossman, Michael - 2021

This paper examines effectiveness of several tobacco control policies in discouraging cigarette smoking among youths … in public places and at private worksites, and limits on the availability of tobacco products to youths. The data … among youths, while limits on smoking in schools would reduce average cigarette consumption among young smokers. However …

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The Impact of Lending, Borrowing, and Anti-Smoking Policies on Cigarette Consumption by Teens

Katzman, Brett; Markowitz, Sara; McGeary, Kerry Anne - 2021

A major factor contributing to smoking initiation and experimentation by teenagers is the ability to 'bum' cigarettes. Yet research until now has ignored the impact of a lending/borrowing market on the smoking decisions of teenagers. In this paper, we develop a theoretical model where smoking...

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