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Every day young people engage in risky behaviors that affect not only their immediate well-being but their long-term health and safety. These well-honed essays apply diverse economic analyses to a wide range of unsafe activities, including teen drinking and driving, smoking, drug use, unprotected sex, and criminal activity. Economic principles are further applied to mental health and performance issues such as teenage depression, suicide, nutritional disorders, and high school dropout rates. Together, the essays yield notable findings: price and regulatory incentives are critical determinants of high-risk behavior, suggesting that youths do apply some sort of cost/benefit calculation when making decisions; the macroeconomic environment in which those decisions are made matters greatly; and youths who pursue high-risk behaviors are significantly more likely to engage in similar behaviors as adults. This important volume provides both a key data source for public policy makers and a clear affirmation of the usefulness of economic analysis to our understanding of risky behavior.

Decision making in adolescence. --- Decision making in adolescence - Economic aspects. --- Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence. --- Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence - Economic aspects. --- Youth - Psychology - Economic aspects. --- Youth. --- Risk-Taking --- Social Problems --- Adolescent --- Age Groups --- Sociology --- Behavior --- Persons --- Social Sciences --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Named Groups --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Child & Youth Development --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Decision making in adolescence --- Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence --- Youth --- Economic aspects --- Psychology --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Adolescent psychology --- Alcoolisme --- Comportement sexuel --- Comportement --- Délinquance juvénile --- Drogues --- Jeune adulte --- behavior, youth, high school dropout rates, risk, eating disorders, nutrition, safety, life choices, suicide, mental health, depression, teenage, performance, economics, statistics, crime, unprotected sex, drug use, smoking, drinking and driving, teen, dui, psychology, adolescence, decision making, marijuana, birth control, sexual activity, juvenile, enrollment, malnourished, nonfiction, sociology. --- Jeunesse --- Prise de risque --- Suicide --- Tabagisme --- Transports