| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16508 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16508 |
| Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use | |
| Joseph G. Altonji; Sarah Cattan; Iain Ware | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-10-28 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | A number of studies have found substantial correlations in risky behavior between siblings, raising the possibility that adolescents may directly influence the actions of their brothers or sisters. We assess the extent to which correlations in substance use and selling drugs are due to causal effects. Our identification strategy relies on panel data, the fact that the future does not cause the past, and the assumption that the direction of influence is from older siblings to younger siblings. Under this assumption along with other restrictions on dynamics, one can identify the causal effect from a regression of the behavior of the younger sibling on the past behavior and the future behavior of the older sibling. We also estimate a joint dynamic model of the behavior of older and younger siblings that allows for family specific effects, individual specific heterogeneity, and state dependence. We use the model to simulate the dynamic response of substance use to the behavior of the older sibling. Our results suggest that smoking, drinking, and marijuana use are affected by the example of older siblings, but most of the link between siblings arises from common influences. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16508 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574182 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joseph G. Altonji,Sarah Cattan,Iain Ware. Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use. 2010. |
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