Risky Behavior Among Youths: An Economic Analysis

by Jonathan Gruber

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226310132
• ISBN13: 9780226310138
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"