Risk perceptions and alcohol consumption among young people

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 165-183

  Lundborg, Petter ^a   Lindgren, Björn ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Risk perception; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036405132     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020695730192     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Alvarez, R. Michael and Garret Glasgow. (1999). "Two-Stage Estimation of Nonrecursive Choice Models," Political Analysis 8, 147-165.
2. Antoñanzas, Fernando, W. Kip Viscusi, Joan Rovira, Francisco J. Braña, Fabiola Portillo, and Iirineu Carvalho. (2000). "Smoking Risks in Spain: Part I-Perceptions of Risks to the Smoker," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 21, 161-186.
3. Bauman, Karl E. (1980). Predicting Adolescent Alcohol Use: Utility Structure and Marijuana. New York: Praeger.
4. Bollen, Kenneth A., David K. Guilkey, and Thomas A. Mroz. (1995). "Binary Outcomes and Endogenous Explanatory Variables: Tests and Solutions with an Application to the Demand for Contraceptive Use in Tunisia," Demography 32, 111-131.
5. Farrelly, Matthew C., Jeremy W. Bray, Galy A. Zarkin, and Brett W. Wendling. (2001). "The Joint Demand for Cigarettes and Marijuana: Evidence from the National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse," Journal of Health Economics 20, 51-68.
6. Gaziano, Michael J., Julie E. Buring, Jan L. Breslow, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Bernard Rosner, Martin Van Denburgh, Walter Willet, and Charles H. Hennekens. (1993). "Moderate Alcohol Intake, Increased Levels of High-Density Lipoprotein and its Subfractions, and Decreased Risk of Myocardial Infarction," New England Journal of Medicine 329, 1829-1834.
7. Greene, William H. (2000). Econometric Analysis. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
8. Hausman, Jerry A. (1978). "Specification Tests in Econometrics," Econometrica 46, 1251-1271.
9. Levine, Phillip B. (2000). "The Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use of American Teenagers," In Jonathan Gruber (ed.), Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis, Working Paper 7781, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
10. Lichtenstein, Sarah, Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischoff, Marl Layman, and Barbara Combs. (1978). "Judged Frequency of Lethal Events," Journal of Experimental Psychology 4, 551-578.
11. Liu, Jin-Tan and Chee-Ruey Hsieh. (1995). "Risk Perception and Smoking Behaviour: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 11, 139-157.
12. Maddala, G.S. (1983). Limited Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics. Cambridge: Cambridge University press.
13. O'Donoghue, Ted and Matthew Rabin. (2000). "Risky Behaviour among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics," Berkeley Working Papers, E00-285, University of California.
14. Orphanides, Athanasios and David Zervos. (1995). "Rational Addiction with Learning and Regret," Journal of Political Economy 103, 739-758.
15. Quadrel, Marilyn Jacobs, Baruch Fishoff, and William Davis. (1993). "Adolescent (In)vulnerability," American Psychologist 48, 102-116.
16. Rivers, Douglas and Quang H. Vuong. (1988). "Limited Information Estimators and Exogeneity Tests for Simultaneous Probit Models," Journal of Econometrics 39, 347-366.
17. Rovira, Joan, W. Kip Viscusi, Fernando Antoñanzas, Joan Costa, Warren Hart, and Irineu Carvalho. (2000). "Smoking Risks in Spain: Part II-Perceptions of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Externalities," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 21, 187-212.
18. Staiger, Douglas and James H. Stock. (1997). "Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments," Econometrica 65, 557-586.
19. Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. (1994). Svensk Alkoholpolitik-Bakgrund och Nuläge [Swedish Alcohol Policy-Background and Present Status]. Swedish Government's Official Investigations, SOU 1994:25. Stockholm: Fritzes.
20. Thun, Michael J., Richard Peto, Alan D. Lopez, Jane H. Monaco, S. Jane Henley, Clark W. Heath Jr., and Richard Doll. (1997). "Alcohol Consumption and Mortality among Middle-Aged and Elderly U.S. Adults,"New England Journal of Medicine 337, 1705-1714.
21. Viscusi, W. Kip. (1988). "Predicting the Effects of Food Cancer Risk Warnings on Consumers," Food and Drug Cosmetic Law Journal 43, 283-307.
22. Viscusi, W. Kip. (1990). "Do Smokers Underestimate Risks?," Journal of Political Economy 98, 1253-1268.
23. Viscusi, W. Kip. (1991). "Age Variations in Risk Perceptions and Smoking Decisions," The Review of Economics and Statistics 73, 577-588.
24. Viscusi, W. Kip. (1998). Rational Risk Policy. New York: Oxford University Press.
25. Viscusi, W. Kip, Irineu Carvalho, Fernando Antoñanzas, Joan Rovim, Francisco J. Breña, and Fabiola Portillo. (2000). "Smoking Risks in Spain: Part III-Determinants of Smoking Behavior," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 21, 213-234.
26. Viscusi, W. Kip and Joni Hersch. (2001). "Cigarette Smokers as Job Risk Takers," Review of Economics and Statistics 83, 269-280.
27. Viscusi, W. Kip and Wesley A. Magat. (1987). Learning about Risk. Consumer and Worker Responses to Hazard Information. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.