Having the wrong friends? Peer effects in adolescent substance use.

Abstract:

:Swedish cross-sectional survey data on young individuals aged 12-18-year-old was used to analyse school-class based peer effects in binge drinking, smoking and illicit-drug use. Significant and positive peer effects were found for all three activities. By introducing school/grade fixed effects, the estimated peer effects were identified by variation in peer behaviour across school-classes within schools and grades, implying that estimates were not biased due to endogenous sorting of students across schools. Further, endogeneity bias due to bi-directionality of peer effects was found for binge drinking and smoking. Controlling for this source of endogeneity resulted in even stronger peer effects.

journal_name

J Health Econ

authors

Lundborg P

doi

10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.02.001

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-03-01 00:00:00

pages

214-33

issue

2

eissn

0167-6296

issn

1879-1646

pii

S0167-6296(05)00042-1

journal_volume

25

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