Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36799 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4880
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol consumption among male peers. This relationship is robust to school fixed effects, cannot be explained by broader cohort effects or general anti-social behaviors in male peer groups, and is distinctly different from any influence of the alcohol consumption of female peers which is shown to have no influence on female sexual activity. There is no evidence that male sexual activity responds to female-peer alcohol consumption.
Subjects: 
Sex
alcohol
adolescent
peer
risky behavior
JEL: 
J13
I12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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