Risky Behavior Among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics
Department of Economics, UCBPublished 7 June 2000
Ted O’Donoghue, Matthew Rabin
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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.
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