Alcohol Use, Human Capital, and Wages

Bray, Jeremy

doi:10.1086/428025

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“…However, epidemiological studies have found that the incidence of miscarriages is also higher due to the consumption of cigarettes and alcohol during pregnancy (Kline et al 1980). At the same time, smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol are correlated with labor market outcomes (Bray 2005;Johansson et al 2007;Levine et al 1997). This undermines the internal validity of the instrument based on miscarriage data.…”

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The Causal Effects of the Number of Children on Female Employment - Do European Institutional and Gender Conditions Matter?

Baranowska-Rataj

Matysiak

2016

J Labor Res

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This paper contributes to the discussion on the effects of the number of children on female employment in Europe. Most previous research has either (1) compared these effects across countries, assuming an exogeneity of family size; or (2) used methods that dealt with endogeneity of family size, but that focused on single countries. We combine these two approaches by taking a cross-country comparative perspective and applying quasi-experimental methods. We use instrumental variable models, with multiple births as instruments, and the harmonized data from the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We examine the cross-country variation in the effects of family size on maternal employment across groups of European countries with different welfare state regimes. This step gives us an opportunity to investigate whether the revealed crosscountry differences in the magnitude of the effect of the family size on maternal employment can be attributed to the diversity of European institutional arrangements, as well as the cultural and the structural conditions for combining work and family duties.

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Section: Analytical Strategymentioning

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The Causal Effects of the Number of Children on Female Employment - Do European Institutional and Gender Conditions Matter?

Baranowska-Rataj

Matysiak

2016

J Labor Res

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“…While most prior work on the relationship between intoxicants and labor market outcomes has focused on alcohol or illegal drug use, the relationship between prescription opioids and labor market outcomes may fundamentally differ from that of alcohol or illicit drugs (Cook and Moore, 1993;French and Zarkin, 1995;Sindelar, 1993, 1996;Buchmueller and Zuvekas, 1998;Zarkin et al, 1998;DeSimone, 2002;Auld, 2005;Bray, 2005). The aforementioned therapeutic potential implies that prescription opioids may positively affect employment outcomes in moderation, but negatively affect employment when taken for illegitimate purposes or in excess.…”

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Prescription Opioids and Labor Market Pains: The Effect of Schedule II Opioids on Labor Force Participation and Unemployment

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We examine the effect of prescription opioids on county labor market outcomes, using data from the Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs of ten U.S. states and labor data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We achieve causal identification by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the concentration of high-volume prescribers as instruments (using Medicare Part D prescriber data). We find strong adverse effects on labor force participation rates, employmentto-population ratios, and unemployment rates. Notably, a 10 percent increase in prescriptions causes a 0.56 percentage point reduction in labor force participation, similar to the drop attributed to the 1984 liberalization of Disability Insurance.

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“…Wage losses due to smoking are reported by Auld (2005), who estimated a system of equations and found wage gains for drinkers. The work of Bray (2005) is the first that explicitly models the mechanism through which drinking affects wages, namely through the formation of human capital. The empirical application of his theoretically derived model suggests that moderate alcohol consumption exerts positive effects on the returns to education and experience, whereas heavy drinking has a negative impact.…”

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In Vino Pecunia? The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages

Ziebarth

Grabka

2008

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractThe positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More importantly, we shed light on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for different types of drinkers. Mincerian estimates reveal significant and positive relationships between wine drinkers and wages as well as between beverage-unspecific drinkers and wages. We are unable to detect endogeneity problems with the drinking variables, which speaks in favor of OLS regressions. When splitting the sample into age groups, the "wine gain" disappears for employees under the age of 35 and increases in size and significance for higher age groups. We also find a "beer gain" for residen...

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Alcohol Use, Human Capital, and Wages

Cited by 67 publications

References 33 publications

The Causal Effects of the Number of Children on Female Employment - Do European Institutional and Gender Conditions Matter?

The Causal Effects of the Number of Children on Female Employment - Do European Institutional and Gender Conditions Matter?

Prescription Opioids and Labor Market Pains: The Effect of Schedule II Opioids on Labor Force Participation and Unemployment

In Vino Pecunia? The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages

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