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Author: Schnorr, Geoffrey C.
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Essays on Unemployment Insurance and Risky Behavior Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, 2021 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Chapter 3, written with Eunju Lee, uses data on sibling pairs near the minimum legal drinking age to provide causal estimates of peer effects in alcohol consumption. Following prior work on other outcomes, we exploit the discontinuous increase in alcohol consumption of the older sibling at the legal drinking age in a regression discontinuity design. Our preferred point estimates imply that the number of binge drinking days reported by the younger sibling decreases by 27% of the mean at the cutoff. While our estimates are somewhat imprecise, we are able to consistently rule out leading positive estimates of peer effects in alcohol consumption. Our research design provides estimates which are interpretable as the causal effect of the peer's alcohol consumption. This is in contrast to most prior work which instead identifies the causal effect of exposure to the peer. We explain how this distinction matters for policy. |
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Schnorr, Geoffrey C. Essays on Unemployment Insurance and Risky Behavior. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, 2021. |
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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 Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. 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. |