The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a theoretical formulation in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands depending on personal, family and peer group variables, and we introduce unobserved...

En este trabajo analizamos los determinantes del consumo abusivo de alcohol entre los jóvenes españoles. Con este fin, adoptamos un enfoque psicosocial que formulamos empíricamente estimando diversos modelos count data (Poisson, binomial negativo, Poisson con exceso de ceros y binomial...