TY  - JOUR
AU  - DeSimone,Jeffrey S.
TI  - Fraternity Membership & Frequent Drinking
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16291
PY  - 2010
Y2  - August 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16291
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16291.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jeffrey S. DeSimone
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
E-Mail: desimone@umd.edu
AB  - Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently.  Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest considerable unobserved heterogeneity in the relationship.  Yet, effects remain substantive and are invariant to conditioning on numerous further measures of socializing, sports participation, academic performance and mental health.  The conclusion holds when non-member comparison groups are restricted to drinkers who smoke, party and/or play intramurals, or matched to members based on drinking propensities, suggesting that fraternity/sorority membership raises alcohol use frequency.
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