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Title: Essays on Unemployment Insurance and Risky Behavior
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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. |