Alcohol policies have potentially far-reaching impacts on risky sexual behavior, prenatal health behaviors, and … both the NVS and the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) that the MLDA laws alter the composition of births … that occur. In states with lenient drinking laws, young black mothers are more likely to have used alcohol 12 months prior …

We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol on student achievement. We first estimate the effect using an RD …'s performance changes after he gains legal access to alcohol, controlling flexibly for the expected evolution of grades as students …

We examine whether adult alcohol consumption and traffic fatalities are associated with the legal drinking environment … in alcohol consumption and a ten percent increase in fatal accidents for adult males. There were no statistically … significant or practically important associations between the legal drinking environment when young and adult female alcohol …

This research analyzes the contemporaneous and intertemporal relationship between the demands for alcohol and marijuana … the 1983-1984 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. An Adjusted Tobit specification is employed for … instrumental variable technique. The results show that higher beer prices significantly reduce the demand for both alcohol and …

levels of alcohol consumption, our results suggest that public policy interventions to reduce youth drinking can have …This paper estimates the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression … discontinuity design. We find that granting legal access to alcohol at age 21 leads to large and immediate increases in several …

between adult alcohol use and earnings, we conjecture that binge drinking conveys unobserved social skills that are rewarded …

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 …

The purpose of this study is to examine the question of whether alcohol or drug use causes teenagers to engage in … of the effects of drug and alcohol consumption on violence may be biased because of the possibility that both behaviors … unobserved characteristics. Data come from the National School-Based Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, which are nationally …