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BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND DRINKING BEHAVIOR: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM AN IRISH COLLEGE STUDY
Author(s) -
DELANEY LIAM,
HARMON COLM,
WALL PATRICK
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2007.00077.x
Subject(s) - personality , irish , alcohol consumption , causality (physics) , psychology , consumption (sociology) , social psychology , covariate , variety (cybernetics) , economics , perception , big five personality traits , demographic economics , regression analysis , econometrics , developmental psychology , sociology , alcohol , statistics , mathematics , social science , linguistics , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
This article examines the results of single‐equation regression models of the determinants of alcohol consumption patterns among college students modeling a rich variety of covariates including gender, family and peer drinking, tenure, personality, risk perception, time preferences, and age of drinking onset. The results demonstrate very weak income effects and very strong effects of personality, peer drinking (in particular closest friend), time preferences, and other substance use. The task of future research is to verify these results and assess causality using more detailed methods ( JEL D12, I31).