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Majumdar, Debarun. and Anderson, Audwin. "31. Differences in Peer Effects on Ssexual Behavior between African American and White Adolescents" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p183596_index.html>

Majumdar, D. and Anderson, A. L. , 2007-08-11 "31. Differences in Peer Effects on Ssexual Behavior between African American and White Adolescents" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p183596_index.html

Publication Type: Poster Abstract: In this paper we examine the disparity in peer influences between African American and white adolescents. Specifically, we examine how delinquent peers affect contraceptive self-efficacy differently for black and white adolescents. Employing mediating and moderating models we find that although contraceptive self-efficacy reduces risky sexual behavior for both races, delinquent peers reduce contraceptive self-efficacy only among African American adolescents and not for white adolescents. The beneficial effect of contraceptive self-efficacy that protects adolescents from taking sexual-risks are mitigated by delinquent peers for African Americans and not for whites. We couch the findings within the debate that peers affect African American adolescents to a greater extent than white or vice versa. We use the first wave (1995) of the Add Health data set and our subsample comprises of adolescents who have been sexually active within the past year.

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