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Sarpong, Eric.

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Essays in labor economics: Alcohol consumption and socioeconomic outcomes.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Essays in labor economics: Alcohol consumption and socioeconomic outcomes./
作者:	Sarpong, Eric.
面頁冊數:	259 p.
附註:	Adviser: Shiferaw Gurmu.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-01A.
標題:	Economics, Labor. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3251186

Essays in labor economics: Alcohol consumption and socioeconomic outcomes.
Sarpong, Eric.

Essays in labor economics: Alcohol consumption and socioeconomic outcomes. - 259 p.

Adviser: Shiferaw Gurmu.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.

Recent studies indicate that alcohol consumption may affect socioeconomic outcomes through its effects on health capital and social capital. If, in fact, differences in socioeconomic outcomes are causally linked to differences in alcohol consumption, then lack of adequate insight into such connectivity may adversely affect the labor market and retirement outcomes of some groups of individuals in society. The rationale for examining the relationship between alcohol consumption and socioeconomic outcomes stems from growing concerns about deterioration in retirement outcomes resulting from declining health capital and recent shifts to incorporate social capital as a key performance or productivity indicator by employers. In two essays, this research examines the impact of alcohol consumption on wealth at retirement using data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study (HRS) from 1992 through 2002; and the effects of alcohol consumption on employment duration and earnings using the Geocode version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY1979) micro dataset from 1984 through 1996. The theoretical foundation of the association between alcohol use and economic outcomes relies on Grossman's (1972) health capital model. Empirically, the research relies on panel data methods and duration analysis to determine whether differences in socioeconomic outcomes can be explained by differences in alcohol consumption.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

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520 $a Using both duration analysis and panel data methods, the results indicate that drinking is positively related to improved socioeconomic outcomes as compared to total abstention, when endogeneity has not been taken into account. In contrast, under the duration analysis, estimation via instrumental variables approach indicates that alcohol consumption shortens employment duration. Panel data estimation indicates that the relationship between alcohol consumption and socioeconomic outcomes is rather an inverted U-shaped for some specifications, when endogeneity has been taken into account. Additionally, the effects of drinking on retirement wealth and earnings tend to diminish with the instrumental variables approach. The findings were unchanged even with abstainers partitioned into lifetime abstainers and infrequent or light drinkers (less than one drinking day per week). The results also confirm the positive association between human capital measures such as the level of education and economic outcomes and also the negative relationship between alcohol consumption and taxes on alcoholic beverages.
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