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18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior … time. Particularly notable is that behavior by underage students appears to drive the relationship …
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smokeless tobacco and cigar use among college students. We do not find, however, any statistically significant association … students, a finding that is at odds with previous research on high school students …
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's performance changes after he gains legal access to alcohol, controlling flexibly for the expected evolution of grades as students … make progress towards their degrees. We find that students' grades fall below their expected levels upon being able to …
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significant reductions in academic performance, particularly for the highest-performing students. This suggests that the negative …
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Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...
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school students during the 1990s and 2000s. The main innovations are explicitly controlling for time-invariant preferences … sex than protective behavior. Effects are much larger for the small fraction of students that has not been taught about …
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age 18-24 four-year college students. For having sex, overall or without condoms, large and significant positive … directly leads to risky sex. Some binge drinking-induced promiscuity seems to occur among students, especially males, involved … in long-term relationships. Effects are concentrated among non-Hispanic whites and are not apparent for students in two …
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students in U.S. colleges and universities. Drinking participation, participation in binge drinking and level of drinking … students are sensitive to the price of beer, with an average estimated price elasticity of drinking participation of -0.066 and … students. However, the results indicate that many elements of campus life, (including participation in a fraternity or sorority …
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This paper examines a natural experiment in which students at a large state university were randomly assigned roommates … students who drink frequently are particularly influenced by frequent-drinking roommates, substance-free housing programs could … possibly even grows over time. In contrast, students' college GPA is not influenced by roommates' high school grades, admission …
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College Alcohol Study (CAS) shows that marijuana use among college students rose 22 percent between 1993 and 1999. Are current … question by investigating the relationship between the demands for alcohol and marijuana for college students using data from …
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