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Does Drinking Impair College Performance? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach / Scott E. Carrell, Mark Hoekstra, James E. West.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carrell, Scott E.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16330.
- NBER working paper series no. w16330
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- This paper examines the effect of alcohol consumption on student achievement. To do so, we exploit the discontinuity in drinking at age 21 at a college in which the minimum legal drinking age is strictly enforced. We find that drinking causes significant reductions in academic performance, particularly for the highest-performing students. This suggests that the negative consequences of alcohol consumption extend beyond the narrow segment of the population at risk of more severe, low-frequency, outcomes.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2010.
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