Adolescent Drinking and High School Dropout Export

@article{ChatterjiDesimone05, abstract = {Author contact info: Pinka Chatterji University at Albany Economics Department Business Administration 111A 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 Tel: 518/442-4746 E-Mail: pchatterji@albany.edu Jeffrey S. DeSimone Department of Economics University of Texas at Arlington 701 S. West St. Arlington, TX 76019 Tel: 817/272-3061 Fax: 817/272-3145 E-Mail: jdesimone@uta.edu This paper estimates the effect of binge and frequent drinking by adolescents on subsequent high school dropout using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Young Adults. We estimate an instrumental variables model with an indicator of any past month alcohol use, which is by definition correlated with heavy drinking but should have minimal additional impact on educational outcomes, as the identifying instrument, and also control for a rich set of potentially confounding variables, including maternal characteristics and dropout risk factors measured before and during adolescence. In comparison, OLS provides conservative estimates of the causal impact of heavy drinking on dropping out, implying that binge or frequent drinking among 15 \%uF81816 year old students lowers the probability of having graduated or being enrolled in high school four years later by at least 11 percent. Overidentification tests using two measures of maternal youthful alcohol use as additional instruments support our identification strategy.}, author = {Chatterji, Pinka and Desimone, Jeff}, citeulike-article-id = {3142949}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.nber.org/papers/w11337}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.nber.org/papers/w11337.pdf}, journal = {National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series}, keywords = {alcohol, education}, month = {May}, pages = {11337+}, posted-at = {2008-08-21 02:52:30}, priority = {2}, title = {Adolescent Drinking and High School Dropout}, url = {http://www.nber.org/papers/w11337}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - ChatterjiDesimone05 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3142949 N2 - Author contact info: Pinka Chatterji University at Albany Economics Department Business Administration 111A 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 Tel: 518/442-4746 E-Mail: pchatterji@albany.edu Jeffrey S. DeSimone Department of Economics University of Texas at Arlington 701 S. West St. Arlington, TX 76019 Tel: 817/272-3061 Fax: 817/272-3145 E-Mail: jdesimone@uta.edu This paper estimates the effect of binge and frequent drinking by adolescents on subsequent high school dropout using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Young Adults. We estimate an instrumental variables model with an indicator of any past month alcohol use, which is by definition correlated with heavy drinking but should have minimal additional impact on educational outcomes, as the identifying instrument, and also control for a rich set of potentially confounding variables, including maternal characteristics and dropout risk factors measured before and during adolescence. In comparison, OLS provides conservative estimates of the causal impact of heavy drinking on dropping out, implying that binge or frequent drinking among 15 %uF81816 year old students lowers the probability of having graduated or being enrolled in high school four years later by at least 11 percent. Overidentification tests using two measures of maternal youthful alcohol use as additional instruments support our identification strategy. JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series TI - Adolescent Drinking and High School Dropout SP - 11337 KW - alcohol KW - education AU - Chatterji, Pinka AU - Desimone, Jeff PY - 2005/May// UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11337 ER -