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1.	Yörük, Baris K.
1.	Can Technology Help to Reduce Underage Drinking? Evidence from the False ID Laws with Scanner Provision Working Paper, Department of Economics, University at Albany-SUNY, March 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: University at Albany-SUNY Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Geocoded Data; Legislation; Modeling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Underage drinkers often use false identification to purchase alcohol or gain access into bars. In recent years, several states have introduced laws that provide incentives to retailers and bar owners who use electronic scanners to ensure that the customer is 21 years or older and uses a valid identification to purchase alcohol. This paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of the effects of these laws using confidential data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Using a difference-in-differences methodology, I find that the false ID laws with scanner provision significantly reduce underage drinking, particularly in the short-run. The impact of these laws are more pronounced for 16 and 17 year olds. For this group, I find that these laws reduce the probability of engaging in binge drinking up to 12 percentage points. These results are robust to alternative model specifications and imply that stricter false ID laws may significantly reduce underage alcohol consumption.
	Bibliography Citation Yörük, Baris K. "Can Technology Help to Reduce Underage Drinking? Evidence from the False ID Laws with Scanner Provision." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University at Albany-SUNY, March 2013.

2.	Yörük, Baris K.
2.	Can Technology Help to Reduce Underage Drinking? Evidence from the False ID Laws with Scanner Provision Journal of Health Economics 36 (July 2014): 33-46. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629614000332 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Geocoded Data; Legislation Underage drinkers often use false identification to purchase alcohol or gain access into bars. In recent years, several states have introduced laws that provide incentives to retailers and bar owners who use electronic scanners to ensure that the customer is 21 years or older and uses a valid identification to purchase alcohol. This paper is the first to investigate the effects of these laws using confidential data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Using a difference-in-differences methodology, I find that the false ID laws with scanner provision significantly reduce underage drinking, including up to a 0.22 drink decrease in the average number of drinks consumed by underage youth per day. This effect is observed particularly in the short-run and more pronounced for non-college students and those who are relatively younger. These results are also robust under alternative model specifications. The findings of this paper highlight the importance of false ID laws in reducing alcohol consumption among underage youth.
	Bibliography Citation Yörük, Baris K. "Can Technology Help to Reduce Underage Drinking? Evidence from the False ID Laws with Scanner Provision." Journal of Health Economics 36 (July 2014): 33-46.

3.	Yörük, Baris K.
3.	Health Insurance Coverage and Risky Health Behaviors among Young Adults B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 17,3 (2017): DOI: 10.1515/bejeap-2016-0282. Also: Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Drug Use; Insurance, Health; Sexual Behavior; Smoking (see Cigarette Use) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates the relationship between health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young adults using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Before the Affordable Care Act required all employers in the United States to provide health insurance to employees' children until the age of 26 (before September 2010), many health insurance contracts covered dependents up until age 19. Using a regression discontinuity design framework, I find that approximately 6 percent of young adults lose their health insurance coverage once they turn 19. I also find that although losing health insurance coverage at age 19 does not have any significant impact on smoking, marijuana use, and risky sexual behaviors among young adults, it decreases the probability of consuming 5 or more drinks a day by approximately 2 percentage points. These results are robust under several different parametric and non-parametric models and not sensitive to the selection of samples based on gender.
	Bibliography Citation Yörük, Baris K. "Health Insurance Coverage and Risky Health Behaviors among Young Adults." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 17,3 (2017): DOI: 10.1515/bejeap-2016-0282.

4.	Yörük, Baris K.
4.	Health Insurance Coverage and Self-reported Health: New Estimates from the NLSY97 International Journal of Health Economics and Management 16,3 (September 2016): 285-295. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10754-016-9189-1 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Insurance, Health Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper provides new estimates of the relationship between health insurance coverage and health status of young adults using the confidential version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Using a regression discontinuity design, I find that approximately 6% of young adults lose their health insurance coverage once they turn 19. However, in contrast to the findings from the recent literature, the effect of this discrete change in health insurance coverage on self-reported health status of young adults is quite limited and often statistically insignificant.
	Bibliography Citation Yörük, Baris K. "Health Insurance Coverage and Self-reported Health: New Estimates from the NLSY97." International Journal of Health Economics and Management 16,3 (September 2016): 285-295.

5.	Yörük, Baris K.
5.	The Impact of the False ID Laws on Alcohol Consumption among Young Adults: New Results from the NLSY97 Journal of Health Economics 57 (January 2018): 191-194. Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629617310809 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Geocoded Data; State-Level Data/Policy In volume 36 of this journal, using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997 cohort (NLSY97), Yoruk (2014) finds that the false ID laws with scanner provision (FSP laws) significantly reduce underage drinking. In a recent paper, Zheng (2017) argues that analyses based on the NLSY97 data fail falsification exercises and uses data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) to estimate the effectiveness of the FSP laws. This paper replies to Zheng (2017) and provides new results from the NLSY97, which show that the FSP laws were effective reducing several indicators of alcohol consumption among minors.
	Bibliography Citation Yörük, Baris K. "The Impact of the False ID Laws on Alcohol Consumption among Young Adults: New Results from the NLSY97." Journal of Health Economics 57 (January 2018): 191-194.

6.	Yörük, Baris K. Yörük, Ceren Ertan
6.	The Impact of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Alcohol Consumption, Smoking, and Marijuana Use Revisited Journal of Health Economics 32,2 (March 2013): 477-479. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629612001233 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Drug Use; Geocoded Data; Legislation; Smoking (see Cigarette Use) In volume 30, issue 4 of this journal, we used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997 cohort (NLSY97) to estimate the impact of the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) laws on alcohol consumption, smoking, and marijuana use among young adults. In our analysis, we used a restricted sample of young adults and considered only those who have consumed alcohol, smoked cigarettes, or used marijuana at least once since the date of their last interview. In this paper, we revisit our original study using the full sample. We show that our results for alcohol consumption in the full sample are similar to those from the restricted sample. However, the effect of the MLDA on smoking and marijuana use is smaller and often statistically insignificant.
	Bibliography Citation Yörük, Baris K. and Ceren Ertan Yörük. "The Impact of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Alcohol Consumption, Smoking, and Marijuana Use Revisited." Journal of Health Economics 32,2 (March 2013): 477-479.

7.	Yörük, Baris K. Yörük, Ceren Ertan
7.	The Impact of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Alcohol Consumption, Smoking, and Marijuana Use: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design Using Exact Date of Birth Journal of Health Economics 30,4 (July 2011): 740-752. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629611000634 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Drug Use; Legislation; Modeling; Smoking (see Cigarette Use) This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the minimum legal drinking age laws on alcohol consumption, smoking, and marijuana use among young adults. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997 Cohort), we find that granting legal access to alcohol at age 21 leads to an increase in several measures of alcohol consumption, including an up to a 13 percentage point increase in the probability of drinking. Furthermore, this effect is robust under several different parametric and non-parametric models. We also find some evidence that the discrete jump in alcohol consumption at age 21 has negative spillover effects on marijuana use but does not affect the smoking habits of young adults. Our results indicate that although the change in alcohol consumption habits of young adults following their 21st birthday is less severe than previously known, policies that are designed to reduce drinking among young adults may have desirable impacts and can create public health benefits.
	Bibliography Citation Yörük, Baris K. and Ceren Ertan Yörük. "The Impact of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Alcohol Consumption, Smoking, and Marijuana Use: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design Using Exact Date of Birth." Journal of Health Economics 30,4 (July 2011): 740-752.

8.	Yörük, Ceren Ertan Yörük, Baris K.
8.	Alcohol Consumption and Risky Sexual Behavior Among Young Adults: Evidence from Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws Journal of Population Economics 28,1 (January 2015): 133-157. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-014-0520-1 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Contraception; Legislation; Sexual Activity; Sexual Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper exploits the discrete jump in alcohol consumption at the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) in the USA and uses a regression discontinuity design to investigate the relationship between drinking and risky sexual behaviors among young adults. Using confidential data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997 Cohort), we document that young adults tend to drink up to 2.1 days more once they are granted legal access to alcohol at age 21. Although the discrete jump in alcohol consumption at the MLDA is associated with an increase in the probability of having sex by up to 7.8 percentage points, it does not have a significant impact on the probability of engaging in risky sexual behaviors among young adults. We also document that the effect of the MLDA on the probability of using several different birth control methods is not significant for those who had sex in the past 4 weeks. These results are robust under alternative specifications and imply that although the MLDA law is quite effective in reducing alcohol consumption among young adults, spillover effects of this law on risky sexual behaviors are relatively limited.
	Bibliography Citation Yörük, Ceren Ertan and Baris K. Yörük. "Alcohol Consumption and Risky Sexual Behavior Among Young Adults: Evidence from Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws." Journal of Population Economics 28,1 (January 2015): 133-157.

9.	Yörük, Ceren Ertan Yörük, Baris K.
9.	Do Minimum Legal Tobacco Purchase Age Laws Work? Contemporary Economic Policy 34,3 (July 2016): 415-429. Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coep.12153 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Western Economic Association International Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Legislation; Smoking (see Cigarette Use) This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the minimum legal tobacco purchase age (MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997 Cohort), which contains information on the exact birth date of the respondents, we find that the impact of the MLTPA on several indicators of smoking among youth is moderate but often statistically insignificant. However, for those who reported to have smoked before, we show that granting legal access to cigarettes and tobacco products at the MLTPA leads to an increase in several indicators of smoking participation, including up to a 5 percentage point increase in the probability of smoking. These results imply that policies that are designed to restrict youth access to tobacco may only be effective in reducing smoking behavior among certain groups of young adults.
	Bibliography Citation Yörük, Ceren Ertan and Baris K. Yörük. "Do Minimum Legal Tobacco Purchase Age Laws Work?" Contemporary Economic Policy 34,3 (July 2016): 415-429.

10.	Yörük, Ceren Ertan Yörük, Baris K.
10.	The Impact of Drinking on Psychological Well-Being: Evidence from Minimum Drinking Age Laws in the United States Social Science and Medicine 75,10 (November 2012): 1844-1854. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612005618 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Psychological Effects; Well-Being In this paper, we investigate the relationship between alcohol consumption and psychological well-being among young adults in the United States. We do so by exploiting the discontinuity in alcohol consumption at age 21 and using a regression discontinuity design. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997 Cohort), we document that young adults tend to increase their alcohol consumption and drink on average 1.5 days per month more once they are granted legal access to alcohol at age 21. However, we also show that in general, this discrete jump in alcohol consumption at age 21 has no statistically significant impact on several indicators of psychological well-being among young adults. This result suggests that although stricter alcohol control targeted toward young adults may result in meaningful reductions in alcohol consumption, the immediate spillover effects of such policies on psychological well-being are relatively limited.
	Bibliography Citation Yörük, Ceren Ertan and Baris K. Yörük. "The Impact of Drinking on Psychological Well-Being: Evidence from Minimum Drinking Age Laws in the United States." Social Science and Medicine 75,10 (November 2012): 1844-1854.

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