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work is licensed under a Creative Commons IGO 3.0 AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-IGO BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ legalcode) and may be reproduced with attribution to the IDB and for any non-commercial purpose, as provided below. No derivative work is allowed.Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license.Following a peer review process, and with previous written consent by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a revised version of this work may also be reproduced in any academic journal, including those indexed by the American Economic Association's EconLit, provided that the IDB is credited and that the author(s) receive no income from the publication. Therefore, the restriction to receive income from such publication shall only extend to the publication's author(s). With regard to such restriction, in case of any inconsistency between the Creative Commons IGO 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and these statements, the latter shall prevail.Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license. I) INTRODUCTIONIn this paper, we explore the relation between adolescents' health risk behaviors and parental engagement in 15 Caribbean and Latin American countries. The relation is examined through logit regressions, and the overall effect is estimated through meta-analysis.Adolescence is a time of many developmental challenges related to identity, autonomy, and sexuality. This period includes experimentation with perceived facets of adulthood. Many adolescents experiment with risk behaviors, such as delinquent, antisocial, and high-risk sexual behaviors. Adolescence is also a period in which these problem behaviors can become established patterns, thereby affecting well-being later in life. During this time, there is also a transformation in the parent-adolescent relationship. This study investigates whether parental engagement can be a significant predictor of risk behaviors of adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean, as has been indicated in many studies of adolescents in developed countries.Furthermore, we aim to investigate any related differences between the Caribbean and Latin American countries.This paper has five sections. Section I introduces the paper. Section II presents a brief literature review on the adolescent-parent relationship and its influence on adolescent health risk behaviors. In section III, we describe the data, variables of interest, and research methods. In section IV, we present the results, and we end with a discussion of the findings in section V. II) ADOLESCENT HEALTH RISK BEHAVIORS: RISK AND PROTECTION FACTORS

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