Economic analysis of peer effects in adolescence and adulthood

青春期和成年期同伴效应的经济分析

• 批准号: DE150101032
• 负责人: Prof Agnieszka Tymula
• 金额: $ 26.08万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2019-05-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE150101032
• 关键词: Economic; analysis; peer; effects; adolescence

Although healthier, stronger and better at reasoning than young children, adolescents' morbidity and mortality rates are double those of young children. Unintentional injury, mostly avoidable and attributed to wrong decisions, is the biggest cause of death and hospitalisation among adolescents in Australia. Peer presence is likely to be a major cause of adolescents' inferior decision-making. This project aims to use experimental economics methods to study how peer presence affects the parameters of the economic decision model, specifically risk tolerance, discounting, and propensity to make errors. The project aims to advance the understanding of decision-making across the lifespan, inform theoretical modelling and advise policy-makers how to reduce the risks to adolescents.

尽管青少年比幼儿更健康、更强壮、更善于推理，但青少年的发病率和死亡率是幼儿的两倍。意外伤害是澳大利亚青少年死亡和住院的最大原因，这种伤害大多是可以避免的，并被归因于错误的决定。同龄人的存在很可能是青少年低级决策的主要原因。本项目旨在使用实验经济学方法来研究同龄人的存在如何影响经济决策模型的参数，特别是风险容忍度、贴现和出错倾向。该项目旨在促进对整个生命周期决策的理解，为理论建模提供信息，并建议政策制定者如何减少对青少年的风险。