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by Jenny Williams Frank Chaloupka Henry Wechsler National
Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. This paper investigates
whether college students' response to alcohol price and policies differ
according to their drinking intensity. Individual level data on drinking
behavior, price paid per drink, and college alcohol policies come from
the student and administrator components of the 1997 and 1999 waves of
the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) College Alcohol Study (CAS).
Students drinking behavior is classified on the basis of the number of
drinks they typically consume on a drinking occasion, and the number of
times they have been drunk during the 30 days prior to survey. A generalized
ordered logit model is used to determine whether key variables impact
differentially the odds of drinking and the odds of heavy drinking. We
find that students who faced a higher money price for alcohol are less
likely to make the transition from abstainer to moderate drinker and moderate
drinker to heavy drinker, and this effect is equal across thresholds.
Campus bans on the use of alcohol are a greater deterrent to moving from
abstainer to moderate drinker than moderate drinker to heavy drinker.
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