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Title: Environment and Persistence in Youthful Drinking Patterns
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Cook, Philip J. Moore, Michael J. |
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Environment and Persistence in Youthful Drinking Patterns In: Risky Behavior Among Youths: An Economic Analysis. J. Gruber, ed. Chicago IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2001: pp. 375-437 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Substance Use; Taxes Provides evidence on the influence of the minimum purchase age and the beer excise task on youthful drinking, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for 1982-85 and 1988-89. The authors find that the estimated effects of excise taxes are sensitive to specification, and they argue that increasing these taxes would reduce the prevalence of binge drinking. The authors present some descriptive statistics on how much American adolescents drink and how their use of alcohol compared with that of their counterparts in other countries. They then analyze the 25-yr trend in drinking and binging prevalence by high school seniors in the US. The similarity between this teen-drinking time profile and the time profile of adult per capita alcohol consumption suggests that the drinking decisions of teens are influence by adult drinking behavior. The authors then discuss the determinants of drinking by young adults, influencing the influence of the alcohol excise tax on alcohol abuse. Results on the persistence of youthful drinking are described with findings that suggest that alcohol availability at age 14 influences the likelihood of binging as an adult. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved.) |
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Cook, Philip J. and Michael J. Moore. "Environment and Persistence in Youthful Drinking Patterns" In: Risky Behavior Among Youths: An Economic Analysis. J. Gruber, ed. Chicago IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2001: pp. 375-437
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