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Title: A Siblings Analysis of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption Onset on Educational Attainment
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Koch, Steven F. Ribar, David C. |
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A Siblings Analysis of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption Onset on Educational Attainment Contemporary Economic Policy 19,2 (April 2001): 162-174. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7287.2001.tb00058.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Western Economic Association International Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Educational Attainment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Pairs (also see Siblings); Schooling; Siblings This article examines the relationship between youthful drinking and educational attainment using data on same-sex siblings pairs from the 1979-1990 panels of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Different estimators are considered that can be constructed using siblings data, including estimators that adopt key restrictions of the standard regression, family fixed effect and instrumental variable approaches. The properties of these estimators are also considered under more general conditions and it is shown that under very plausible assumptions the effect of drinking on schooling can be bounded. the study finds that estimates of the schooling consequences of youthful drinking are very sensitive to specification issues. The research concludes that the actual effects of youthful drinking on education are likely to be small. Copyright Western Economic Association Apr 2001. |
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Koch, Steven F. and David C. Ribar. "A Siblings Analysis of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption Onset on Educational Attainment." Contemporary Economic Policy 19,2 (April 2001): 162-174.
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