Winkelmann
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Risky Behaviors of Youth in Switzerland: Trends and Explanations | ||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | This project studies the link between individual characteristics, socio-economic characteristics, and risky behaviors (smoking, alcohol and drug consumption, obesity) of Swiss youth and adolescents. It uses five waves of the Schweizerische Gesundheitsbefragung (SGB), collected between 1992 and 2007, that surveys Swiss residents aged 15 or above, including foreign nationals that have lived in Switzerland for at least three months. Recent inclusion of a number of questions from "Minimum European Health Module" and the "European Health Interview System (EHIS)" enables international comparisons. Our study investigates time series trends in risky behaviors of youth and compares them to those of adults. It uses regression analysis to disentangle two basic explanations used to account for changes in risky behaviors over time: changes in weights of factors determining the behaviors on one hand and changes in factors themselves (such as increase or decrease in the number of individuals with precarious lifestyle characteristics and living conditions for instance) on the other. The revealed relative significance of these channels generates important facts and empirical relations that provide input necessary for building models of risky behaviors as well as determining policies that could affect them. |
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career) |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Jan 2009 to Jun 2010 |