Session 53:
Peers, Neighborhoods, and Health
Chair: John Hipp, University of California, Irvine
Discussant: Margot Jackson, Brown University
Discussant: Derek Kreager, Pennsylvania State University
Cross-Dimensional Friendship Selection as a Risk Factor for Peer Influence on Substance Use among Adolescents Steven A. Haas, Arizona State University ; David Schaefer, Arizona State University ; Olga Kornienko, Arizona State University ; Nicholas J. Bishop, Arizona State University
Peer Networks as a Determinant of Female Autonomy and Child Welfare Eeshani Kandpal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Census Data Based Simulation Experiment on the Effects of Modeling Neighborhood Effects on a Health Outcome at “the Wrong” Scale of the Census Geography Claudia L. Nau, Pennsylvania State University
Adolescent Friendship Networks and Trajectories of Binge Drinking Michael S. Pollard, RAND Corporation ; Harold Green, RAND Corporation ; David P. Kennedy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Myong-Hyun Go, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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