alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological … effects of alcohol intoxication from those mediated by expectations, as we compare behaviors of three groups of subjects …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but …

effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of use of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and other drugs. We find that … being a PK significantly reduces alcohol use. This effect comes exclusively from a reduction in the probability of any … alcohol use and this increased abstinence among children of the clergy persists into adulthood. These results are consistent …

Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol related causes and among working … Anti-Alcohol Campaign. We use archival sources to build a new oblast-year data set spanning 1970-2000 and find that: (1 …) The campaign was associated with substantially fewer campaign year deaths, (2) Oblasts with larger reductions in alcohol …

The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We … propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they … both decisions, we test for peer influences. Our results first show evidence that alcohol abuse and truancy share …

In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do … endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may provide a biased picture of the impact of alcohol consumption on …

This paper examines the results of single-equation regression models of the determinants of alcohol consumption …

I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and … demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol consumption among male peers. This relationship is … groups, and is distinctly different from any influence of the alcohol consumption of female peers which is shown to have no …

primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access to alcohol. It is important to keep in mind, though, that … policymakers have a wide variety of alcohol-control options available to them, and understanding how these policies may complement … alcohol has effects on motor vehicle accidents of any type in New South Wales, despite having large effects on drinking and on …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …