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100 1 _aDeSimone, Jeffrey S.
_933172
245 1 0 _aFraternity Membership and Drinking Behavior /
_cJeffrey S. DeSimone.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2007.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w13262
500 _aJuly 2007.
520 3 _aThis paper estimates the impact of fraternity and sorority membership on a wide array of drinking outcomes among respondents to four Harvard College Alcohol Study surveys from 1993-2001. Identification is achieved by including proxies for specific types of unobserved heterogeneity expected to influence the relationship. These include high school and parental drinking behaviors to account for time-invariant omitted factors, and assessed importance of drinking-related activities and reasons for drinking to control for changes in preferences since starting college. Self-selection is quantitatively important. But even controlling for variables plausibly affected by fraternity membership, such as current alcohol use categorization (from abstainer to heavy drinker) and time spent socializing, fraternity membership has a large impact on drinking intensity, frequency and recency, as well as various negative drinking consequences that potentially carry negative externalities.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aI1 - Health
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aI2 - Education and Research Institutions
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w13262.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w13262
856 _yAcceso en lĂ­nea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w13262
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