Alcohol Consumption and Long‐Term Labor Market Outcomes

Böckerman, Petri; Hyytinen, Ari; Maczulskij, Terhi

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“…However, Liu et al [23] showed that girls from high perceived family wealth groups were more likely to be abstainers than girls from low perceived family wealth groups. Conversely, ESTUDES (2016-2017) [16] found an association between higher family socioeconomic level and higher alcohol use among adolescents. In addition, Moure-Rodríguez et al [50] found that a high maternal education level -a variable considered reflective of a high socioeconomic level -was a risk factor for risky consumption (drinking 5 alcoholic beverages or more for girls and 6 or more for boys) among Spanish youth.…”

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Social, economic and family factors associated with binge drinking in Spanish adolescents

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Trapero‐Bertran

Mora

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Background: The main aim of this study was to determine the socioeconomic and family factors associated with binge drinking (BD) in Spanish adolescents who participated in a web-based computer intervention for the prevention of binge drinking known as Alerta Alcohol . Methods: Longitudinal analyses were carried out in a sample of Andalusian adolescents aged 15 to 19 enrolled in public schools, which was part of a two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial with an intervention group (IG) who received the Alerta Alcohol programme and a control group (CG) who did not receive any active intervention. Panel count data and the following econometric procedures were used: negative binomial, a two-part model and a finite mixture model. The endogenous variable in all models was the number of BD occasions in the last 30 days. A total of 1,247 subjects in the pre-intervention period, with an average age of 16.8 years, plus 612 adolescents in the follow-up period (four months later), were included in the analysis. Results: In relation to findings, being older ( ≥ 17 years old), having more pocket money and higher family alcohol consumption were associated with greater BD. By contrast, subjects who completed the questionnaire on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, further from the previous weekend, indicated a lower number of BD occasions. Conclusions: Our results suggest the need to include families, especially parents and siblings, in interventions aimed at preventing alcohol use among adolescents, given the association shown between BD and both family alcohol consumption and weekly pocket money or availability of money to adolescents. Given the findings with regard to age, future research aimed at intervening in early adolescence to prevent BD would be justified.

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Social, economic and family factors associated with binge drinking in Spanish adolescents

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Trapero‐Bertran

Mora

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“…However, previous work has shown that youthful drinkers are at greater risk of involvement in youth violence, low educational attainment and low college expectations, putting a nancial burden on the criminal justice system and the education sector [7][8]. In addition to these consequences, Böckerman et al [9] discovered a negative association between BD, in particular, and months of employment, and subsequently also with long-term adverse long-term labor market outcomes. The foregoing suggests a need to intervene to change young people's behaviour in relation to BD.…”

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Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis of a web-based computer-tailored intervention for prevention of binge drinking among Spanish adolescents

Vargas-Martínez

Lima‐Serrano

Trapero‐Bertran

2020

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BackgroundWorldwide, binge drinking (BD) today follows being a public health concern among adolescents. This study sought to assess the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a web-based computer-tailored intervention to prevent BD in adolescence.MethodsThe sample was drawn from a study evaluating the Alerta Alcohol programme. The population consisted of adolescents aged 15–19. Decision tree analysis was used to estimate costs and health outcomes, as measured by number of BD occasions and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). Incremental Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Ratios were also calculated from National Health Service (NHS) and societal perspective and for a time horizon of four months. Multivariate deterministic sensitivity analysis of best/worst scenarios by subgroups was used to account for uncertainty.ResultsThe intervention was dominant from the societal perspective resulting in savings of €7,986.37 by one BD occasion averted per month. With regard to Incremental Cost-Utility Ratios, the intervention resulted in an incremental cost of €71.05 per QALY gained from NHS perspective and this was dominant, from societal perspective, resulting in savings of €34,126.64 per QALY gained in comparison with the control group. Subgroup analyses showed that the intervention resulted dominant for girls from both perspectives, and for those who were older (17 years or more) from NHS perspective.ConclusionComputer-tailored feedback is a cost-effective way to reduce BD and to increase QALYs among adolescents. However, long-term follow-up would probably be needed to capture major changes both in reduction of BD and in increasing of health-related quality of life.Trial registration(ClinicalTrials.gov): NCT03288896. Registration date: September 20, 2017. “Retrospectively registered”.

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“…This examination is an important extension of the earlier literature because stress may trigger changes in substantial health behavior, such as excessive alcohol consumption (McKee et al, 2003;Dawson et al, 2005), which leads to serious difficulties in the labor market (Böckerman et al, 2015a). We use the within-twin pair variation for these variables to explore the robustness of our within twin results for three classes of the SLE index.…”

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“…We explore these mechanisms by adding measures for the crucial aspects of health behavior, as well as the measures for mental stability in the additional models as covariates. For example, adverse life events have been found to affect risky health behavior, such as excessive alcohol consumption and smoking (McKee et al, 2003, Dawson et al, 2005, which lead to substantial losses in the labor market (Böckerman et al, 2015a;Böckerman et al, 2015b). The health-related controls include smoking and alcohol use.…”

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Harsh times: do stressors lead to labor market losses?

Maczulskij

Böckerman

2018

Eur J Health Econ

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Alcohol Consumption and Long‐Term Labor Market Outcomes

Cited by 52 publications

References 45 publications

Social, economic and family factors associated with binge drinking in Spanish adolescents

Social, economic and family factors associated with binge drinking in Spanish adolescents

Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis of a web-based computer-tailored intervention for prevention of binge drinking among Spanish adolescents

Harsh times: do stressors lead to labor market losses?

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