Fraternity membership & frequent drinking
By: Jeffrey S. DeSimone
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16291; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16291.
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.  Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently.  Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest considerable unobserved heterogeneity in the relationship.  Yet, effects remain substantive and are invariant to conditioning on numerous further measures of socializing, sports participation, academic performance and mental health.  The conclusion holds when non-member comparison groups are restricted to drinkers who smoke, party and/or play intramurals, or matched to members based on drinking propensities, suggesting that fraternity/sorority membership raises alcohol use frequency"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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