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"Tell me who you hang out with": classroom peer effects on psychoactive substances consumption

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: I use Colombian data to estimate peer effects for psychoactive substance consumption among high school students and identify channels for these effects. Instrumenting classroom consumption with that of the household yields that an increase of 10% in the proportion of classroom users of alcohol, cannabis, and cocaine increases the probability of students to use each substance in 3.14%, 4.29%, and 2.38% respectively. Data provides channels of these effects, specifically that the effect is explained by students who interact with consumers, leading to easier access to drugs or a decrease in the perceived risk of consuming these substances.

Source: Económica

Author: Carlos Salamanca

Language: English

Topic: Youth, Drugs, and Violence

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2781525686

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