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Title: Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
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1. Lindo, Jason M.
Swensen, Isaac D.
Waddell, Glen R.
Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
Journal of Health Economics 32,1 (January 2013): 22-32.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629612001476
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; School Performance

We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol on student achievement. Our preferred approach identifies the effect through changes in one's performance after gaining legal access to alcohol, controlling flexibly for the expected evolution of grades as one makes progress towards their degree. We also report RD-based estimates but argue that an RD design is not well suited to the research question in our setting. We find that students’ grades fall below their expected levels upon being able to drink legally, but by less than previously documented. We also show that there are effects on women and that the effects are persistent. Using the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that students drink more often after legal access but do not consume more drinks on days on which they drink.
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Lindo, Jason M., Isaac D. Swensen and Glen R. Waddell. "Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access." Journal of Health Economics 32,1 (January 2013): 22-32.