RiskyBehaviorAmongYouths:Some
IssuesfromBehavioralEconomics
TedO’Donoghue
DepartmentofEconomics
CornellUniversity
and
MatthewRabin
DepartmentofEconomics
UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
May3,2000
Abstract
Thispaperexploressomeofthewaysthateconomistscanincorporateinsightsfromrecent
researchcombiningpsychologyandeconomicstohelpunderstandriskybehaviorbyadoles-
cents.