Relative Deprivation and Risky Behaviors

Ana Balsa, Michael T. French and Tracy L. Regan

No 1304, Documentos de Trabajo/Working Papers from Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economia. Universidad de Montevideo.

Abstract: Relative deprivation has been associated with lower social and job satisfaction as well as adverse health outcomes. Using Add Health data, we examine whether a student’s relative socioeconomic status (SES) has a direct effect on substance use. We advance the existing literature by addressing selection and simultaneity bias and by focusing on a reference group likely to exert the most influence on the respondents. We find that relative deprivation is positively associated with alcohol consumption, drinking to intoxication, and smoking for adolescent males, but not for females. Alternative variable definitions and robustness checks confirm these findings.

Keywords: relative deprivation; socio-economic status; risky behaviors; adolescents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 I20 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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