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Title: Military Service and Alcohol Use
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Teachman, Jay D. Anderson, Carter Tedrow, Lucky M. |
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Military Service and Alcohol Use Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Gender Differences; Military Service; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Veterans Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. It is well known that enlistees and veterans 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 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 from the 1997 National Longitudinal Study of Youth, we investigate the relationship between military service and alcohol use using a fixed-effects approach. We find that military service appears to encourage young men to consume alcohol. Also, the effect of military service is not limited to the time that men spend in the military in that male veterans are also more likely to consume alcohol than are comparable civilians. 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." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014. |