Drinking and schooling

Philip J. Cook; Michael J. Moore

doi:10.1016/0167-6296(93)90003-W

Drinking and schooling

Philip J. Cook^*, Michael J. Moore

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Abstract

We employ the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data to explore the effect of youthful drinking on years of schooling and on the likelihood of college graduation. Our instruments for youthful drinking include the state beer tax and the minimum purchase age. Reduced form equations are also estimated. Our results indicate that heavy drinking in high school reduces the average number of years of schooling completed following high school. Other things equal, students who spend their high school years in states with relatively high taxes and minimum age are more likely to graduate from college.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	411-429
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Health Economics
Volume	12
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-6296(93)90003-W
State	Published - Dec 1993

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Correspondence to: P.J. Cook, PO Box 90245, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Fax (919) 681-8288 *We thank Frank Chaloupka for providing the data on state excise taxes. For helpful comments on earlier drafts, we thank Charles Clotfelter, Zvi Griliches, James Hamilton, Willard Manning, John Mullahy, David Salkever, Jody Sindelar. and participants in the NBER Higher Education Working Group and the Third Annual Health Economics Workshop. This research was supported in part by a grant from NIAAA.

Keywords

Alcohol abuse
Demand for schooling
Excise taxes

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Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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