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Sorting into secondary education and peer effects in youth smoking
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SYSNO ASEP 0334253 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Ostatní články Title Sorting into secondary education and peer effects in youth smoking Author(s) Pertold, Filip (NHU-N) RID Source Title CERGE-EI Working Paper Series - ISSN 1211-3298
-, č. 399 (2009), s. 1-32Number of pages 32 s. Publication form www - www Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords peer effects ; smoking ; youth Subject RIV AH - Economics R&D Projects LC542 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) CEZ AV0Z70850503 - NHU-N (2005-2011) Annotation The start of daily smoking is often shortly after the resorting of students between elementary and secondary education. This paper employs a novel identification strategy based on this resorting, in order to estimate peer effects in youth smoking. We address the reflection problem by peers’ pre-secondary-school smoking, which is not influenced by the current social interaction of classmates. The empirical findings based on data from the Czech Republic, where the prevalence of youth smoking prevalence reached high levels, suggest that male youth smoking is significantly affected by classmates, while female smoking is not. Workplace Economics Institute Contact Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122 Year of Publishing 2010
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