We study social interactions in the initiation of sex and other risky behaviors by best friend pairs in the Add Health panel. Focusing on friends with minimal experience at the baseline interview, we estimate bivariate ordered-choice models that include both peer effects and unobserved heterogeneity. We find significant peer effects in sexual initiation: the likelihood of initiating intercourse...

BACKGROUND Depressive symptoms and risk behaviours often do not occur in isolation among adolescents and young adults. In order to improve intervention programmes, more research is needed to elucidate the clustering of risk behaviours, the association with depressive symptoms, and demographic variables. Therefore, this study examined the clustering of risk behaviours, the association with depre...

Child labor's effect on academic achievement is estimated, using unique data on 3rd and 4th graders in 9 Latin American countries. Cross-country variation in truancy regulations provides an exogenous shift in the ages of children normally in these grades, providing exogenous variation in opportunity cost of child time. Leastsquares estimates of the impact of child labor on test scores are biase...

mentally, but because of illness that has kept them out of school; also they are both handicapped through defective hearing. All the others who have failed to stand the test of the course of study have done so for various reasons other than physical ones. The reasons, so far as I can ascertain, are truancy, slow mental development, excessive cigarette smoking, lack of application to their schoo...

Learners’ participation in public primary schools Narok South Sub- County has been low. Many register high cases of learners dropout schools. This is also characterised by truancy. The objective the study was; to assess influence personal truancy dynamics on learners’ was guided Maslow’s hierarchy needs and person-centred theories. adopted a mixed methodology applied concurrent triangulation re...