Alcohol use, human capital, and wages

Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 279-312

  Bray, Jeremy W ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944367622     PISSN: 0734306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/428025     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Ashenfelter, Orley, and David Zimmerman. 1997. Estimates of the return to schooling from sibling data: Fathers, sons, and brothers. Review of Economics and Statistics 79, no. 1:1-9.
2. Baum, Christopher F., Mark E. Schaffer, and Steven Stillman. 2003. Instrumental variables and GMM: Estimation and testing. Working paper no. 545, Department of Economics, Boston College.
3. Berger, Mark C., and J. Paul Leigh. 1988. The effect of alcohol use on wages. Applied Economics 20 (October): 1343-51.
4. Bray, Jeremy W. 2000. Identifying inputs to the human capital production function: The effects of alcohol use on human capital formation. PhD diss., Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
5. Bray, Jeremy W., Gary A. Zarkin, Chris Ringwalt, and Junfeng Qi. 2000. The relationship between marijuana initiation and dropping out of high school. Health Economics 9, no. 1:9-18.
6. Bryant, Richard R., V. A. Sumaranayake, and Allen Wilhite. 1992. Alcohol use and wages of young men: Whites vs. nonwhites. International Review of Applied Economics 6, no. 2:184-202.
7. _. 2000. The effect of drug use on wages: A human capital interpretation. American Journal of Drug Alcohol Abuse 26, no. 4:659-82.
8. Card, David. 1999. The causal effect of education on earnings. In Handbook of labor economics, vol. 3, ed. Orley C. Ashenfelter and David Card, 1801-63. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
9. Carey, Kate B., and Stephen A. Maisto. 1987. Effect of a change in drinking pattern on the cognitive function of female social drinkers. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 48, no. 3:236-42.
10. Center for Human Resource Research. 1995. NLS users' guide. Columbus: Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University.
11. Conneely, Karen, and Roope Uusitalo. 1997. Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in the Becker schooling model. Unpublished discussion paper, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University.
12. Cook, Phillip J., and Michael J. Moore. 1993. Drinking and schooling. Journal of Health Economics 12, no. 4:411-29.
13. _. 2000. Alcohol. In Handbook of health economics, vol. 1b, ed. Anthony Culyer and Joseph Newhouse, 629-74. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
14. Dee, Thomas S., and William N. Evans. 2003. Teen drinking and educational attainment: Evidence from two-sample instrumental variables estimates. Journal of Labor Economics 21, no. 1:178-209.
15. Doll, Richard. 1998. The benefit of alcohol in moderation. Drug and Alcohol Review 17, no. 4:353-63.
16. Dufour, Mary C., and M. Fe Caces. 1993. Epidemiology of the medical consequences of alcohol. Alcohol Health and Research World 17, no. 3:265-71.
17. Elias, Penelope K., Merrill F. Elias, Ralph B. D'Agostino, Halit Silbershatz, and Phillip A. Wolf. 1999. Alcohol consumption and cognitive performance in the Framingham heart study. American Journal of Epidemiology 150, no. 6:580-89.
18. French, Michael T., and Gary T. Zarkin. 1995. Is moderate alcohol use related to wages? Evidence from four worksites. Journal of Health Economics 14, no. 3:319-44.
19. GAO (General Accounting Office). 1991. Teenage drug use: Uncertain linkages with either pregnancy or school dropout. GAO/PEMD-91-3. Report to the Chairman, Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
20. Hannon, Roseann, Charles Butler, Carol Lynn Day, Steven A. Khan, Lupo A. Quitoriano, Annette M. Butler, and Lawrence A. Meredith. 1985. Alcohol use and cognitive functioning in men and women college students. In Recent developments in alcoholism, vol. 1, ed. M. Galanter. New York: Plenum.
21. Heckman, James, and Burton Singer. 1984. A method for minimizing the impact of distributional assumptions in econometric models for duration data. Econometrica 52, no. 2:271-320.
22. Heien, Dale M. 1996. Do drinkers earn less? Southern Economic Journal 63, no. 1:60-68.
23. Kenkel, Donald S., and David C. Ribar. 1994. Alcohol consumption and young adults' socioeconomic status. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics, no. 1:119-61.
24. Kenkel, Donald, and P. Wang. 1999. Are alcoholics in bad jobs? In The economic analysis of substance use and abuse, ed. Frank Chaloupka, Michael Grossman, Warren Bickel, and Henry Saffer, 251-78. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
25. Killingsworth, Mark R., and James J. Heckman. 1992. Female labor supply: A survey. In Handbook of labor economics, vol. 1, ed. Orley C. Ashenfelter and Richard Layard, 103-204. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
26. Koch, Steven F., and David C. Ribar. 2001. A siblings analysis of the effects of alcohol consumption onset on educational attainment. Contemporary Economic Policy 19, no. 2:162-74.
27. MaCurdy, Thomas, Thomas A. Mroz, and Mark R. Gritz. 1998. An evaluation of the National Longitudinal Survey on Youth. Journal of Human Resources 33, no. 2:345-436.
28. Mroz, Thomas A. 1987. The sensitivity of an empirical model of married women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions. Econometrica 55, no. 4:765-99.
29. _. 1999. Discrete factor approximations in simultaneous equation models: Estimating the impact of a dummy endogenous variable on a continuous outcome. Journal of Econometrics 92, no. 2:233-74.
30. Mroz, Thomas A., and Brian J. Surette. 1998. Post-secondary schooling and training effects on wages and employment. Working paper, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
31. Mullahy, John, and Jody L. Sindelar. 1989. Life-cycle effects of alcoholism on education, earnings, and occupation. Inquiry 26, no. 2:272-82.
32. _. 1992. Effects of alcohol on labor market success: Income, earnings, labor supply, and occupation. Alcohol Health and Research World 16, no. 2:134-39.
33. _. 1993. Alcoholism, work, and income. Journal of Labor Economics 11, no. 3:494-520.
34. _. 1996. Employment, unemployment, and problem drinking. Journal of Health Economics 15, no. 4:409-34.
35. Parker, Douglas, A., Elizabeth S. Parker, Jacob A. Brody, and Ronald Schoenberg. 1983. Alcohol use and cognitive loss among employed men and women. American Journal of Public Health 73, no. 5:521-26.
36. Parker, Elizabeth S., and Ernest P. Nobel. 1977. Alcohol consumption and cognitive functioning in social drinkers. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 38, no. 7:1224-32.
37. SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration). 2002. Highlights: National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. Available at http://www.samhsa.gov/oas/NHSDA/2kNHSDA/highlights.htm, last updated on February 14, 2002.
38. Savage, Timothy H. 1999. The long-term effects of youth unemployment. PhD diss., Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
39. Staiger, Douglas, and James H. Stock. 1997. Instrumental variables regression with weak instruments. Econometrica 65, no. 3:557-86.
40. Stock, James H., and Motohiro Yogo. 2004. Testing for weak instruments in linear IV regression. Discussion Paper no. TO284, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
41. Willis, Robert J. 1992. Wage determinants: A survey and reinterpretation of human capital earnings functions. In Handbook of labor economics, vol. 1, ed. Orley Ashenfelter and Richard Layard. New York: North Holland.
42. Wolaver, Amy M. 2002. Effects of heavy drinking in college on study effort, grade point average, and major choice. Contemporary Economic Policy 20, no. 4:415-28.
43. Yamada, Tetsuji, Michael Kendix, and Tadashi Yamada. 1996. The impact of alcohol consumption and marijuana use on high school graduation. Health Economics 5, no. 1:77-92.
44. Zarkin, Gary A., Michael T. French, Thomas A. Mroz, and Jeremy W. Bray. 1998. Alcohol use and wages: New results from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. Journal of Health Economics 17, no. 1:53-68.