Liquid Assets? the Short-Run Liabilities of Binge Drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan

doi:10.1111/ecoj.12627

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“…For example, 24% of first-year German medical students reported engaging in heavy episodic drinking (HED) at least once in the previous 2 weeks (Keller et al, 2007). Although the health (Wechsler & Nelson, 2008) and economic (Francesconi, 2015) implications of alcohol misuse have been widely studied and are well-known, we know little about the employment implications of such behavior. Specifically, little is known as to whether the way in which college students drink or the amounts they consume is related to their employment upon graduation.…”

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Does college alcohol consumption impact employment upon graduation? Findings from a prospective study.

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Journal of Applied Psychology

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Although scholars have extensively studied the impact of academic and vocational factors on college students’ employment upon graduation, we still know little as to how students’ health-related behaviors influence such outcomes. Focusing on student alcohol use as a widely prevalent, health-related behavior, in the current study, we examined the employment implications of student drinking behavior. Drawing from literature examining the productivity effects of drinking and research on job search, we posited that modal quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption, as well as the frequency of heavy episodic drinking (HED) adversely impact the probability of employment upon graduation. Using data from 827 graduating seniors from 4 geographically diverse universities in the United States collected in the context of a prospective study design, we found modal alcohol consumption to have no adverse effect on the likelihood of employment upon graduation. However, we did find a significant adverse effect for the frequency of heavy drinking, with the data suggesting a roughly 10% reduction in the odds of employment upon graduation among college seniors who reported engaging in the average level of HED. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

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Does college alcohol consumption impact employment upon graduation? Findings from a prospective study.

Bamberger

Koopmann²,

Wang

et al. 2018

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…To ease comparisons, the first row of the table shows the estimates from the baseline specification, which correspond to the estimates displayed in Figure 3 and compare well with the DD and spatial RD estimates in Tables 2 and 3, respectively. 27 Timing of Accidents -We first consider the impact of the tighter BAC limit at different hours of the day and different days of the week when alcohol consumption is more or less likely to play a role (Francesconi and James, 2019). The analysis divides observations during the day (8:00am till 8:00pm) from those during the night (8:00pm till 8:00am in the following morning).…”

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“…For instance, in 2018, over 160,000 casualties from road traffic collisions were reported, consistently representing the second or third leading cause of death among Britons aged 5-34 in the last 30 years. Driving under the influence of alcohol is the main risk factor for road crashes everywhere, and a dose-response relation is systematically observed between blood alcohol concentration and road traffic accidents (Levitt and Porter, 2001;Francesconi and James, 2019). Medical research from field and laboratory studies suggests that lowering the BAC level from 0.08 to 0.05 would significantly curtail risk taking among drivers and stop people from being killed as a result (Fell and Voas, 2006;Breitmeier et al, 2007;Phillips and Brewer, 2011;van Dyke and Fillmore, 2017;Fell and Scherer, 2017).…”

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None for the Road? Stricter Drink Driving Laws and Road Accidents

Francesconi

James

2021

Journal of Health Economics

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Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions. Estimates from a supply-of-offenses function suggests that the reform did not have much ex-ante scope for sizeable effects. The unavailability of cheaper alternative means of transportation and weak law enforcement seem to have been the main channels behind the lack of an impact. We find no externality on a wide range of domains, from alcohol consumption to criminal activities other than drink driving.

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“…We apply a regression discontinuity (RD) design to comprehensively study the impact of a particularly low MLDA of 16 years in Austria, a country with very high alcohol consump-1 There is a larger literature on the detrimental effects of heavy alcohol use. Recent design-based studies evaluate its impact on hospitalizations among young people (Marcus and Siedler, 2015); accidents, emergency attendances, and arrests (Francesconi and James, 2019); as well as mortality (Bhattacharya et al, 2013;Yakovlev, 2018;Kueng and Yakovlev, 2021). Nilsson (2017) examines the effect of pre-natal exposure to heavy drinking on long-term economic outcomes.…”

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