The relationship between substance use and risky sexual behavior among adolescents and young adults.
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Title
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The relationship between substance use and risky sexual behavior among adolescents and young adults.
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Identifier
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AAI3169969
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identifier
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3169969
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Creator
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Qiu, Ying.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Michael Grossman
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Date
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2005
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Economics, General
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Abstract
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A positive relationship between the use of such substances as alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine alcohol and risky sexual behavior by adolescents and young adults has been widely documented. While it often is assumed that substance use causes risky sex, this has not been established. The observed relationship may reflect causality in both directions and may also reflect the influence of an omitted "third variable" such as a "thrill-seeking personality." By using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, I attempt to establish whether substance use does in fact cause risky sex. In the first essay, I employ a two-pronged research strategy. First, I control for a very rich set of individual-characteristics. Second, I use substance use state-level substance control policies as instruments for substance use in a two-stage least squares estimation methodology. In the second paper, two novel classes of identifying variables: a set of school level substance policies and the first difference of the 12th grade substance use; are used to predict the consumption of alcohol and marijuana in a two-stage least squares estimation strategy. My findings suggest that substance uses in both the 10th and 12th grades are associated with risky sexual behavior when respondents are in their very early twenties. While there is some evidence that the substance use effect is causal, the results are somewhat sensitive to the specific set of instruments employed.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
