Research Catalog

Title

Risky behavior among youths : an economic analysis / edited by Jonathan Gruber.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Gruber, Jonathan

Description

x, 538 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Every day young people engage in risky behaviours that affect not only their immediate well-being but their long-term health and safety. These essays apply diverse economic analyses to a wide range of unsafe activities, including teen drinking, drug use, unprotected sex, and criminal activity.

Series Statement

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Uniform Title

• Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
• University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Adolescent
• Adolescent > United States > Congresses
• Decision making in adolescence > Economic aspects > Congresses
• Risk-Taking
• Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence > Economic aspects > Congresses
• Social Problems > economics
• United States
• Youth > Economic aspects > Congresses

Genre/Form

Congress

Note

• "The papers in this volume were presented at a conference at the South Seas Plantation in December 1999"--P. xi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 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.
• Introduction / Jonathan Gruber -- Risky behavior among youths: some issues from behavioral economics / Ted O'Donoghue and Mathew Rabin -- Youth smoking in the United States: evidence and implications / Jonathan Gruber and Jonathan Zimman -- Teen and traffic safety / Thomas S. Dee and William N. Evans -- Sexual activity and birth-control use of American teenagers / Phillip B. Levine -- Explanining the rise in youth suicide / David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, and Karen E. Norberg -- Marijuana and youth / Rosalie Liccardo [and others] -- 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 1970? / David Card and Thomas Lemieux -- Youths at nutrition risk: malmourshed or misnorished? / Jay Bhattacharya and Janet Currie.

ISBN

0226310132 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00047973^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library