Drinking patterns within households: The estimation and interpretation of individual and group variables

Health Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 689-699

  Rice, Nigel ^a   Sutton, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Endogenous; Exogenous and correlated effects; Hierarchical structures; Household influences

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032422378     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199812)7:8<689::AID-HEC385>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Rice, N. and Leyland, A.H. Multilevel models: applications to health data. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 1996; 1: 154-164.
2. Edwards, G., Anderson, P., Babor, T.F., Casswell, S., Ferrence, R. et al. Alcohol policy and the public good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
3. Skog, O.-J. Social interaction and the distribution of alcohol consumption. Journal of Drug Issues 1980; 10: 71-92.
4. Rice, N., Carr-Hill, R.A., Dixon, P. and Sutton, M.A. The influence of households on drinking behaviour: a multilevel analysis. Social Science and Medicine 1998; 46: 971-979.
5. Sutton, M.A. and Godfrey, C. A grouped data regression approach to modelling the economic and social determinants of individual drinking behaviour. Health Economics 1995; 4: 237-247.
6. Jones, A.M. A microeconometric analysis of smoking in the UK health and lifestyle survey. Centre for Health Economics Discussion Paper 139. York: Centre for Health Economics, 1995.
7. Manski, C.F. Identification of endogenous social effects: the reflection problem. Review of Economic Studies 1993; 60: 531-542.
8. Berggren, F. Sutton, M.A. Are frequency and intensity of participation utility-bearing aspects of consumption? An analysis of drinking behaviour. Centre for Health Economics Technical Paper 1. York: Centre for Health Economics, 1996.
9. Hirshleifer, D. The blind leading the blind. Social influence, fads, and informational cascades. In: Tomassi, M. and Ierulli, K. (eds.) The New Economics of Human Behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
10. Sugden, R. Spontaneous Order. Journal of Economic Perspectives 1989; 3: 85-97.
11. Akerlof, G. A theory of social custom, of which unemployment may be one consequence. Quarterly Journal of Economics 1980; 90: 599-617.
12. Elster, J. Social norms and economic theory. Journal of Economic Perspectives 1989; 3: 99-117.
13. Jones, S.R.G. The economics of conformism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984.
14. Duesenberry, J.S. Income, saving, and the theory of consumer behaviour. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949.
15. Jones, A.M. and Sutton, M. The influence of drinking styles on alcohol consumption levels. University of York, Mimeo, 1997.
16. Lindbladh, E., Lyttkens, C.H., Hanson, B.S., Ostergren, P.O., Isacsson, S.O., Lindgren, B. An economic and sociological interpretation of social differences in health related behaviour. An encounter as a guide to social epidemiology. Social Science and Medicine 1996; 43: 1917-1927.
17. White, A., Nicholas, G., Foster, K., Browne, F. and Carey, S. Health Survey in England 1991. A survey carried out by the Social Survey Division of the OPCS on behalf of the Department of Health, London: HMSO 1993.