TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Duarte, Rosa
AU  - Escario, José-Julián
AU  - Molina, José Alberto
        TI  - Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours: An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy among Adolescents
        PY  - 2007/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2589
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2589
        AB  - The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce unobserved individual effects that can influence both behaviours. Empirically, our paper develops an analysis where, after controlling for the existence of unobserved individual factors affecting both decisions, we test for peer influences. Our results first show evidence that alcohol abuse and truancy share unobserved factors affecting both decisions, and then confirm the existence of significant peer group influences on these two deviant behaviours.
        KW  - peer
KW  - truancy
KW  - alcohol
KW  - risk behaviours
KW  - unobserved factors
KW  - bivariate probit
        ER  -