Don´t drink and... avoid risky sex of your peers: the influence of alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers on youth risky sexual behavior

0351406 - NHU-C 2011 CZ eng J - Journal Article
Pertold, Filip
Don´t drink and. avoid risky sex of your peers: the influence of alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers on youth risky sexual behavior.
CERGE-EI Working Paper Series. -, č. 422 (2010), s. 1-27. ISSN 1211-3298
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LC542
Institutional research plan: CEZ:MSM0021620846
Keywords : peer effects * sexual behavior * drinking
Subject RIV: AH - Economics
http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp422.pdf

I estimate the effect of opposite-gender peer drinking on individual risky sexual behavior among Czech youth. The identification strategy relies on two main controls for individual and group-specific unobservables. First, younger schoolmates’ sexual behavior is a control for school-specific attitudes toward sexual behavior. Second, pre-determined individual pre-secondary-school alcohol consumption is used to control for self-selection into schools of individuals with specific attitudes toward alcohol.
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