Social interactions in health behaviors and conditions

Balsa, Ana Inés; Díaz, Carlos

dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.contributor.author	Balsa, Ana Inés
dc.contributor.author	Díaz, Carlos
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-04T19:56:08Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-04T19:56:08Z
dc.date.issued	2018	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/1363
dc.description.abstract	We review the economic literature of the past 20 years on peer effects in health behaviors and conditions. We find consistent evidence of peer effects across a wide range of behaviors and outcomes (alcohol, body weight, food and nutrition, physical fitness, sexual behaviors, fertility, and mental health use) and across a diverse set of identification techniques (instrumental variables, network analysis, reduced form models, random assignment of peers, and discrete choice models of endogenous interactions). Despite the thorough evidence on the existence of peer effects, we still know little about the underlying mechanisms. Understanding these mechanisms is critical for the design of effective policies and constitutes the new stage in the research agenda.	es
dc.format.extent	72 p.	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	es
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Documentos de trabajo del Departamento de Economía	es
dc.rights	Abierto	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Peer effects	es
dc.subject	Social interactions	es
dc.subject	Peer influence	es
dc.subject	Health behaviors	es
dc.subject	Health conditions	es
dc.subject	Systematic review	es
dc.subject	Substance use	es
dc.subject	Obesity	es
dc.subject	Sexual behavior	es
dc.subject	Mental health	es
dc.title	Social interactions in health behaviors and conditions	es
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Balsa, Ana Inés. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Díaz, Carlos. Universidad Católica del Uruguay	es
dc.type.version	Publicada	es