LEADER 04414nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910782996703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-00486-7 010 $a9786612004865 010 $a0-226-30997-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226309972 035 $a(CKB)1000000000722574 035 $a(EBL)432229 035 $a(OCoLC)313477683 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000238705 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199889 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000238705 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10253345 035 $a(PQKB)11787638 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115655 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432229 035 $a(DE-B1597)524048 035 $a(OCoLC)1058439148 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226309972 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432229 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10275462 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL200486 035 $a(iGPub)UCHIB0000291 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000722574 100 $a20000913d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aRisky behavior among youths$b[electronic resource] $ean economic analysis /$fedited by Jonathan Gruber 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (551 p.) 225 1 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research conference report 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-31013-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Risky Behavior among Youths -- $t2. Youth Smoking in the United States -- $t3. Teens and Traffic Safety -- $t4. The Sexual Activity and Birth-Control Use of American Teenagers -- $t5. Explaining the Rise in Youth Suicide -- $t6. Marijuana and Youth -- $t7. The Determinants of Juvenile Crime -- $t8. Environment and Persistence in Youthful Drinking Patterns -- $t9. Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Postwar Period -- $t10. Youths at Nutrition Risk -- $tContributors -- $tAuthor Index -- $tSubject Index 330 $aEvery day young people engage in risky behaviors that affect not only their immediate well-being but their long-term health and safety. These well-honed essays apply diverse economic analyses to a wide range of unsafe activities, including teen drinking and driving, smoking, drug use, unprotected sex, and criminal activity. Economic principles are further applied to mental health and performance issues such as teenage depression, suicide, nutritional disorders, and high school dropout rates. Together, the essays yield notable findings: price and regulatory incentives are critical determinants of high-risk behavior, suggesting that youths do apply some sort of cost/benefit calculation when making decisions; the macroeconomic environment in which those decisions are made matters greatly; and youths who pursue high-risk behaviors are significantly more likely to engage in similar behaviors as adults. This important volume provides both a key data source for public policy makers and a clear affirmation of the usefulness of economic analysis to our understanding of risky behavior. 410 0$aNational Bureau of Economic Research conference report. 606 $aDecision making in adolescence$xEconomic aspects$vCongresses 606 $aRisk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence$xEconomic aspects$vCongresses 606 $aYouth$xPsychology$xEconomic aspects$vCongresses 610 $abehavior, youth, high school dropout rates, risk, eating disorders, nutrition, safety, life choices, suicide, mental health, depression, teenage, performance, economics, statistics, crime, unprotected sex, drug use, smoking, drinking and driving, teen, dui, psychology, adolescence, decision making, marijuana, birth control, sexual activity, juvenile, enrollment, malnourished, nonfiction, sociology. 615 0$aDecision making in adolescence$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aRisk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aYouth$xPsychology$xEconomic aspects 676 $a305.235 701 $aGruber$b Jonathan$0145559 712 02$aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782996703321 996 $aRisky behavior among youths$93703449 997 $aUNINA