2nd Annual Meeting on the Economics of Risky Behaviors (AMERB)

Friday, March 19:

08:30	-	09:00		Registration / Coffee / Tea
09:00	-	09:15		Welcoming Remarks Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA), Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University and IZA)
09:15				Session 1: Risky Behaviors and Health
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (George Washington University, Temple University and IZA)
09:15	-	10:15		David Frisvold (Emory University), Jason Fletcher (Yale University)
				"The Long Run Health Returns to College Quality"
				Discussant: James Marton (Georgia State University)
10:15	-	11:15		Katherine Grace Carman (Tilburg University), Peter Kooreman (Tilburg University)
				"Flu Shots, Mammogram, and the Perception of Probabilities"
				Discussant: David C. Ribar (University of North Carolina, Greensboro and IZA)
11:15	-	11:30		Coffee / Tea Break
11:30	-	12:30		Tatiana Andreyeva (Yale University), Inas Rashad Kelly (Queens College, CUNY)
				"Exposure to Food Advertising on Television, Food Choices and Childhood Obesity"
				Discussant: Roy Wada (University of Illinois at Chicago)
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch
13:30				Session II: Smoking and Illicit Drug Use
				Chair: James Alm (Georgia State University)
13:30	-	14:30		Gabriella Conti (University of Chicago)
				"Cognition, Cannabis and Wages"
				Discussant: Mary Burke (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
14:30	-	15:30		Steven Lehrer (Queen's University), Weili Ding (Queen's University), J. Niels Rosenquist (Harvard Medical School and MGH)
				"Reinvestigating Adolescent Smoking Decisions: The Importance of Genetic Markers, Risk Attitudes and their Interactions"
				Discussant: David Frisvold (Emory University)
15:30	-	15:45		Coffee / Tea Break
15:45				Session III: Alcohol Consumption, Sexual Activity, and Risky Behaviors
				Chair: Barry T. Hirsch (Georgia State University and IZA)
15:45	-	16:45		Glen R. Waddell (University of Oregon and IZA)
				"Gender and the Influence of Peer Alcohol Consumption on Adolescent Sexual Activity"
				Discussant: Inas Rashad Kelly (Queens College, CUNY)
16:45	-	17:45		Hendrik Wolff (University of Washington and IZA)
				"Innovations of Life Style Drugs and Some Socio-Economic Consequences"
				Discussant: Melinda Pitts (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
19:00				Conference Dinner

Saturday, March 20:

08:30	-	09:00		Coffee / Tea
09:00				Session IV: Gangs, Crime, and Productivity
				Chair: Volkan Topalli (Georgia State University)
09:00	-	10:00		Gary Sweeten (Arizona State University), David C. Pyrooz (Arizona State University), Alex R. Piquero (Florida State University)
				"The Effects of Joining and Leaving a Gang on Delinquent Offending"
				Discussant: Frank Heiland (Baruch College, City University of New York)
10:00	-	11:00		Klara Sabirianova Peter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and IZA), Tetyana Zelenska (Georgia State University)
				"The Price of the Hippocratic Oath: Determinants of Bribery in Russian Health Care"
				Discussant: Brian Scholl (U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and IZA)
11:00	-	11:15		Coffee / Tea Break
11:15	-	12:15		Keynote Richard Rosenfeld (Curator's Professor, University of Missouri - St. Louis) "Street Crime and the Economy: The Role of Underground Markets"
12:15	-	13:30		Lunch
13:30				Session V: Risky Behaviors and Experimental Evidence
				Chair: David L. Sjoquist (Georgia State University)
13:30	-	14:30		Patrick J. Nolen (University of Essex), Alison Booth (Australian National University and IZA)
				"Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?"
				Discussant: Alison Evans Cuellar (George Mason University)
14:30	-	15:30		Núria Rodríguez-Planas (IZA and IAE-CSIC)
				"Can an Intense After-School Program for At-Risk Youth Help Prevent Risky Behaviors? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States"
				Discussant: Jungmin Lee (Sogang University and IZA)
15:30	-	15:45		Coffee / Tea Break
15:45	-	16:45		Antonio Filippin (University of Milan and IZA), Luca Corazzini (University of Padua), Paolo Vanin (University of Bologna)
				"The Social Context and the Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Economic Behaviour"
				Discussant: Angela Dills (Wellesley College)
19:30				Conference Dinner

Sunday, March 21:

09:00	-	09:30		Coffee / Tea
09:30				Session VI: Adolescents and Risky Behaviors
				Chair: Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University and IZA)
09:30	-	10:30		Jason M. Fletcher (Yale University and IZA), Stephen Ross (University of Connecticut)
				"Estimating the Effects of Friendship Networks on Health Behaviors of Adolescents"
				Discussant: Rusty Tchernis (Georgia State University and IZA)
10:30	-	11:30		David C. Ribar (University of North Carolina, Greensboro and IZA), Deborah Cobb-Clark (Australian National University and IZA)
				"Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles"
				Discussant: Keith Finlay (Tulane University)
11:30	-	13:30		Farewell Luncheon and Closing Remarks Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA) Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University and IZA)