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Title: Military Service and Alcohol Use in the United States
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Teachman, Jay D. Anderson, Carter Tedrow, Lucky M. |
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Military Service and Alcohol Use in the United States Armed Forces and Society 41,3 (July 2015): 460-476. Also: http://afs.sagepub.com/content/41/3/460.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Gender Differences; Military Service; Modeling, Fixed Effects Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. It is well known that enlistees and veterans in the United States are more likely to use alcohol than civilians. However, most of this research is potentially biased in that it often does not employ control variables (other than age) and is based on cross-sectional data. Much of this research also fails to consider the relationship between military service and alcohol use among women. Using longitudinal data taken from the 1997 National Longitudinal Study of Youth, we investigate the relationship between military service and alcohol consumption employing a fixed-effects approach. We find that military service appears to encourage young men to consume alcohol. It is also the case that the effect of military service is not limited to the time that men spend in the military given that male veterans are also more likely to consume alcohol than are comparable nonveterans. We find, however, that women who serve, both enlistees and veterans, are less likely to drink than their civilian counterparts. |
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Teachman, Jay D., Carter Anderson and Lucky M. Tedrow. "Military Service and Alcohol Use in the United States." Armed Forces and Society 41,3 (July 2015): 460-476.
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