ArticleHealth economics2018
Estimating the effects of friends on health behaviors of adolescents.
Article in Health economics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effect of virtual education on health responsibility of overweight students during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2024Trial
- Whose Care Matters? The Protective Role of Perceived Care in the Long-Term Physical Health Consequences of Adolescent Loneliness.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Sex differences in social connectedness, health, and quality of life: evidence from a cross-sectional survey in urban Accra, Ghana.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Commensality and academic performance: measuring peer acceptance among college students.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Behavioral Economics in the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Theory and Simulations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Evaluating interactions between emotion regulation strategies through the interpersonal context of female friends.Journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
- Social norms and climate-friendly behavior of adolescents.PloS one · 2022Article
- Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: Lower level or faster decline?SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Exploring the Effect of Market Conditions on Price Premiums in the Online Health Community.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
This paper estimates the effects of friends' smoking and drinking on own behavior while controlling for correlated unobservables between friends. The effect of friends' behaviors is identified by comparing similar individuals who have similar friendship opportunities and make similar friendship choices, exploiting the idea that friendship choice reveals information about unobservables. We combine this identification strategy with an across-cohort within school design so that identification arises in our reduced form estimates from across-grade differences in the clustering of health behaviors. Finally, we use estimated information on correlated unobservables to examine longitudinal data on the onset of health behaviors, where the likelihood of reverse causality should be minimal. We find evidence that this strategy produces somewhat smaller (no more than 16% smaller) friendship effect estimates than the more standard school fixed effect models consistent with at most modest bias from correlated unobservables.
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