(2006) Birth order and risky adolescent behavior. Economic Inquiry 44(2): 215-233.Argys, Laura M., Daniel I. Rees, Susan L. Avarett, and Benjamin Witoonchart, "Birth order and risky adolescent behavior." Economi
Overall, birth order and sibling’s gender composition may therefore affect economic preferences by either potential imitation and/or differentiation (Whiteman et al., 2007), and it is ex-ante not clear how birth order and sibling’s gender interact.Footnote 1 In the present paper, we are goi...
Adler (1928) and Sulloway (1996) were some of the first researchers to suggest that children born into the same family may differ due to the order in which they were born. For instance, Adler (1928) suggested that firstborn children were often privileged whereas the youngest child might be ...
“risky sexual behavior” among some teenagers and young women. Birth control isn’t just used as a pregnancy contraceptive, for many women it is used to control reproductive health, treat debilitating symptoms, and improve your quality of life. Some of the most common uses of birth control ...
This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, she believes, because “life history theory suggests that in risky and uncertain environments the optimal reproductive strategy is to reproduce early in order to maximize the probability of leaving any descendents at all.” Among teenage mothers who ...
Childbearing, curve progression, and sexual function in women 22 years after treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a case-control study. STUDY DESIGN: A consecutive series of female patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treated between 1968 and 1977, either with distraction and fusio.....
the associationbetween self-control and BMI in men had increased to −0.70 (−0.96 to −0.44) and −0.67 (−1.04 to −0.30) in women.CONCLUSIONS: Lower adolescent self-control was associated with higher BMI through the life course, and this becomes strongerwith age. Investigations to...
Children are labelled as boys and girls and encouraged to learn sex-appropriate behaviour from ___ onward. a. birth b. age two c. age three d. age six Gender Identity: The term gender identity refers to a person's p...
(2006). Birth order and risky adolescent behavior. Economic Inquiry, 44(2), 215鈥 233 demonstrated that a strong link exists between birth order and adolescent risky behavior. Using data on 10th graders from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, we extend the work of Argys et ...
birth ordersiblingsBackground: Prior research demonstrated the relationship between birth order and adolescent risky behavior. The possible connection between the presence of siblings and birth order and underage alcohol abuse is unknown. Methods: Our study involves 10 years of data collection on under...