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Title: My Brother's (Bar)keeper? Sibling Spillovers in Alcohol Consumption at the Minimum Legal Drinking Age
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1. Schnorr, Geoffrey C.
My Brother's (Bar)keeper? Sibling Spillovers in Alcohol Consumption at the Minimum Legal Drinking Age
Presented: Chicago IL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2017
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Siblings

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Preliminary results based on a sample of roughly 2,000 sibling pairs from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth suggest that the [minimal legal drinking age] MLDA-induced increase in alcohol consumption among older siblings has either no effect or small positive effects on the alcohol consumption of the younger siblings. Sensitivity analyses considering the effect on the older sibling when the younger sibling turns 21 and the effect within various subgroups of sibling pairs (e.g. same gender pairs) produce similar results. These estimates rely on self-reports of past month consumption and are somewhat heterogeneous. However, my preferred specifications are able to rule out meaningfully large peer effects in drinking days between siblings. If unobserved factors related to the alcohol consumption of both siblings are not changing discontinuously when one sibling turns 21, then these results are causally interpretable.
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Schnorr, Geoffrey C. "My Brother's (Bar)keeper? Sibling Spillovers in Alcohol Consumption at the Minimum Legal Drinking Age." Presented: Chicago IL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2017.