Time,money, peers,and parents; some data and theories on teenage behavior |
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Authors: | Peter Kooreman |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Economics,Tilburg University,Tilburg,The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | In the first part of the paper, I analyze a data set on teenage behavior. The data is a sample of high school students in
The Netherlands and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well-being
and self-esteem. As all students in a sampled class are interviewed in principle, the data set has rich information on the
behavior of potentially important peers of each respondent. I estimate models to assess (bounds on) the magnitude of endogenous
social interactions. For some types of behavior (e.g., truancy, smoking, pocket money, and alcohol expenditures), endogenous
social interactions within school classes are strong; for other behaviors, they are moderate or unimportant. Within-gender
interactions are generally stronger than interactions between boys and girls, with some intriguing exceptions. In the second
part of the paper, I discuss a number of theories that might help to understand the empirical patterns. Key concepts in the
discussion are interdependent preferences, endogenous social norms, identity, and intergenerational interactions. |
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