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Author: Siahaan, Freddy
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Kalist, David E. Siahaan, Freddy |
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The Association of Obesity with the Likelihood of Arrest for Young Adults Economics and Human Biology 11,1 (January 2013): 8-17. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X1200007X Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Arrests; Body Mass Index (BMI); Crime; Obesity; Weight This paper examines whether obesity is associated with the likelihood of arrest. We hypothesize that obese individuals are less likely to commit crime and be arrested because their body weights may prevent them from successfully engaging in certain criminal activities, particularly those that are physically intensive. To test this hypothesis, we use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and panel data techniques and find that obesity is negatively related to arrest. In one specification, for example, we found that the odds of an obese man being arrested are 64 percent of those of a healthy weight man. The social costs of obesity may be overstated if obesity reduces the likelihood of arrest because the obese are less criminally active. |
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Kalist, David E. and Freddy Siahaan. "The Association of Obesity with the Likelihood of Arrest for Young Adults." Economics and Human Biology 11,1 (January 2013): 8-17.
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Siahaan, Freddy |
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An Exploration of the Relationship Between Risky Sexual Behavior and Substance Use by Teenagers and Young Adults Ph.D. Dissertation, City University of New York, 2006. DAI-A 67/08, Feb 2007 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Adolescent Sexual Activity; Risk-Taking; Substance Use; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the extent to which the relationship between substance use and risky sexual behavior among teenagers and young adults is causal. That is, does the use of marijuana and alcohol cause young people to be less likely to use condoms or other methods of birth control and to have had more sexual partners? Establishing a causal effect of substance use on sexual behavior is essential to the design of effective public policies targeted at improving public health by affecting sexual behavior. Using panel data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 with four observations on each person in the period from 1997 through 2000, we take a Granger causality model to establish causality. The idea here is to see whether past substance use influences current sexual behavior, with past sexual behavior held constant. Results show that binge drinking and marijuana use cause males to have multiple sexual partners, but there is no evidence that they causally affect the number of sexual partners for female teenagers and young adults. In the case of risky sex, binge drinking increases the likelihood of having risky sex among males, while it does not causally affect the likelihood of having risky sex among females. Marijuana use, on the other hand, increases the likelihood of having risky sex among females, while it is not causally affect that likelihood among males. |
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Siahaan, Freddy. An Exploration of the Relationship Between Risky Sexual Behavior and Substance Use by Teenagers and Young Adults. Ph.D. Dissertation, City University of New York, 2006. DAI-A 67/08, Feb 2007. |
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Siahaan, Freddy |
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Effects of Alcohol Use on Teenager and Young Adult Sexual Behaviors Working Paper, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, October 2004. Also: http://www.disc.wisc.edu/reports/CDERR/cderr59.htm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Young Adult, NLSY97 Publisher: City University of New York Keyword(s): Age at First Intercourse; Alcohol Use; Sexual Activity; Sexual Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the causal relationship between alcohol use and teenager and young adult sexual behaviors. The data used in this paper are from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) and National Longitudinal Survey Young Adult Sample (NLSYAS). OLS and TSLS estimates by gender show that there is a positive causal relationship between alcohol use and teenage and young adult sexual behaviors. However, the validity of the TSLS estimates is questionable. This confirms the difficulty in establishing causal relationship between substance use and sexual behaviors. Even though, we cannot definitely rule it out. |
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Siahaan, Freddy. "Effects of Alcohol Use on Teenager and Young Adult Sexual Behaviors." Working Paper, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, October 2004. |
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Siahaan, Freddy Lee, Daniel Y. Kalist, David E. |
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Educational Attainment of Children of Immigrants: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Economics of Education Review 38 (February 2014): 1-8. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775713001349 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Immigrants; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parental Influences This study investigates the educational attainment of children of immigrants in the United States. By employing a more detailed classification of children of immigrants, we examine whether a foreign place of birth of either parent or child affects the child's educational attainment. Our results indicate that the full-second generation (U.S.-born children with both foreign-born parents) achieves the highest educational attainment, while the full-first generation (foreign-born children with both foreign-born parents) achieves the second highest educational attainment compared to the other groups of children of immigrants and native children. Full-first and full-second generation females also achieve higher educational attainment than their native female peers. The results support the optimism theory of assimilation in which the educational attainment of children of immigrants relies on the combination of their foreign-born parents’ strong values on education and the children's English proficiency. |
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Siahaan, Freddy, Daniel Y. Lee and David E. Kalist. "Educational Attainment of Children of Immigrants: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth." Economics of Education Review 38 (February 2014): 1-8.
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