Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption: A Quantile Regression Approach
Schmidt C, Tauchmann H (2011)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2011
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Publisher: Elsevier
Book Volume: 30
Pages Range: 33-42
Journal Issue: 1
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.09.005
Abstract
This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children's later consumption of alcohol - which is frequently found to be of positive sign - exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children's alcohol consumption, conventional regression analyses that focus on the mean effect may substantially underrate parental drinking as a risk factor for children's later alcohol abuse. In our empirical application, we address this issue by applying censored quantile regression methods to German survey data. The supposed pattern of heterogeneity is indeed found in the data, at least for daily parental drinking. In addition, the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption exhibits gender-specific heterogeneity. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
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Schmidt, C., & Tauchmann, H. (2011). Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption: A Quantile Regression Approach. Journal of Health Economics, 30(1), 33-42. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.09.005
MLA:
Schmidt, Christoph, and Harald Tauchmann. "Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption: A Quantile Regression Approach." Journal of Health Economics 30.1 (2011): 33-42.
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