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Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?
Ruhm, Christopher J.; Black, William E. - 2021
This paper investigates the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, alcohol use, and drinking problems using individual-level data from the 1987-1999 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We confirm the procyclical variation in overall drinking identified in previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210607
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Nonlinear Policy Rules and the Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design
Card, David - 2012
We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097659
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Regression Kink Design : Theory and Practice
Card, David - 2016
unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980189
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Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Attempts Among Youth - Correlation or Causation?
Chatterji, Pinka; Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert; … - 2021
This study uses the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) to explore the causal relationship between alcohol abuse (binge drinking and clinically defined alcohol use disorders) and suicide attempts among youth. We use an empirical approach that allows one to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230169
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Job Loss : Eat, Drink and Try to Be Merry?
Deb, Partha - 2009
improve upon extant literature by using: exogenously determined business closings, a sophisticated estimation approach (finite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158042
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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Chatterji, Pinka - 2010
behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760640
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Employment, Unemployment, and Problem Drinking
Mullahy, John; Sindelar, Jody L. - 2022
unemployment. The sample of approximately 15,000 observations is drawn from the 1988 Alcohol Survey of the National Health … when using OLS estimation methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158808
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Alcohol and Student Performance : Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
Lindo, Jason M. - 2011
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol on student achievement. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach is not well suited to the research question in our setting. Our preferred approach instead exploits the longitudinal nature of the data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117885
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Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Consumption : Is There Really a Gateway Effect?
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - 2008
This research analyzes the contemporaneous and intertemporal relationship between the demands for alcohol and marijuana by youths and young adults. A general theory of multi-commodity habit formation is developed and tested using data from the 1983-1984 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774914
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Drinking and Academic Performance in High School
DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2010
We investigate the extent to which negative alcohol use coefficients in GPA regressions reflect unobserved heterogeneity rather than direct effects of drinking, using 2001 and 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey data on high school students. Results illustrate that omitted factors are quite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762528