ECONOMIC AND OTHER FACTORS IN YOUTH ALCOHOL USE.
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Title
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ECONOMIC AND OTHER FACTORS IN YOUTH ALCOHOL USE.
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Identifier
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AAI8713741
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identifier
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8713741
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Creator
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ARLUCK, GREGORY M.
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Contributor
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Michael Grossman
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Date
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1987
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Economics, General
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Abstract
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This dissertation emphasizes the role of economic and regulatory factors in the determination of youth alcohol consumption and participation.;Demand models are estimated on individual data for a national sample of youths twelve to twenty years of age.;We develop three sets of multiple regression models to explain the annual consumption of beer, wine, and liquor. These models evaluate the effects of age, sex, ethnicity, education, family income, and other individual and household characteristics, along with alcohol prices (excise taxes), and legal drinking ages on annual consumption. Another set of multiple regression models are developed, of the linear probability type, which analyze the effects of the same variables on the decision to drink. We combine the elasticity effects from the consumption and participation models to estimate the incremental effects on total expected youth consumption resulting from changes in alcohol prices (excise taxes), and/or the removal of legal drinking ages.;The consumption models generally show that beer is unresponsive to price; that wine has an excise tax elasticity of -0.17; and that liquor has an excise tax elasticity of -0.91. The participation models indicate that wine is unresponsive to excise taxes; that the excise tax elasticity of beer is -0.06; and that of liquor is -0.65.;Legal drinking ages have a mitigating effect on alcohol consumption and participation. Beer consumption of underage youths is reduced by more than 22 percent, and beer participation by more than 7 percent. Neither wine consumption nor wine participation is affected by legal drinking ages. Liquor participation is reduced by nearly 9 percent, but liquor consumption is unaffected.;The lowering of drinking ages has significant short-term effects of significantly increasing individual wine consumption, however, these effects die out within one year. Neither individual beer nor liquor consumption, however, show stimulative responses to lower drinking ages.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Economics
