Binge drinking and risky sex among college students
By: Jeffrey S. DeSimone
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15953; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15953.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  This study examines the relationship between binge drinking and sexual behavior in nationally representative data on age 18-24 four-year college students.  For having sex, overall or without condoms, large and significant positive associations are eliminated upon holding constant proxies for time-invariant sexual activity and drinking preferences.  However, strong relationships persist for sex with multiple recent partners, overall and without condoms, even controlling for substance use, risk aversion, mental health, sports participation, and sexual activity frequency.  Promiscuity is unrelated with non-binge drinking but even more strongly related with binge drinking on multiple occasions.  Results from a rudimentary instrumental variables strategy and accounting for whether sex is immediately preceded by alcohol use suggest that binge drinking directly leads to risky sex.  Some binge drinking-induced promiscuity seems to occur among students, especially males, involved in long-term relationships.  Effects are concentrated among non-Hispanic whites and are not apparent for students in two-year schools"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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