Risky Behavior Among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics

Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin

Department of Economics, Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley

Abstract: This paper explores some of the ways that economists can incorporate insights from recent research combining psychology and economics to help understand risky behavior by adolescents.

Keywords: risk; adolescents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-06-07
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