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Title: Marriage and Heavy Drinking among Young Adults
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Lin, Muh-Chung |
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Marriage and Heavy Drinking among Young Adults Presented: San Francisco CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2009 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Cohabitation; Health Factors; Marriage; Propensity Scores Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The gains in health for married people have long been documented in the social sciences. Nevertheless, the precise mechanisms through which marriage improves health are rarely explored. This study examines how marriage influences health by shunning one unhealthy behavior: heavy drinking. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), I performed propensity score matching to obtain the effects of marriage on excessive drinking and to account for selection. Results from Mahalanobis and propensity score matching show that married people are significantly less likely to engage in heavy drinking. I also performed diagnostics to assess the validity of propensity scores and the quality of matching. The types of marriage matter: formal marriage has stronger effects, whereas cohabitation is unrelated to any reduction in heavy drinking. The effects of marriage do not differ by gender. |
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Lin, Muh-Chung. "Marriage and Heavy Drinking among Young Adults." Presented: San Francisco CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2009. |