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Having the wrong friends? Peer effects in adolescent substance use

Lundborg, Petter LU (2006) In Journal of Health Economics 25(2). p.214-233
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.
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substance use, adolescents, peer effects
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Journal of Health Economics
volume
25
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2
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214 - 233
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Elsevier
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  • wos:000236343400003
  • pmid:15964090
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1879-1646
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10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.02.001
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English
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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Division of Health Economics and Forensic Medicine (Closed 2012) (013040050), Centre for Economic Demography (012019200)
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  keywords     = {{substance use; adolescents; peer effects}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{214--233}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Journal of Health Economics}},
  title        = {{Having the wrong friends? Peer effects in adolescent substance use}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.02.001}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.jhealeco.2005.02.001}},
  volume       = {{25}},
  year         = {{2006}},
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