TY  - JOUR
AU  - Williams,Jenny
AU  - Chaloupka,Frank J.
AU  - Wechsler,Henry
TI  - Are There Differential Effects of Price and Policy on College Students' Drinking Intensity?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8702
PY  - 2002
Y2  - January 2002
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8702
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8702.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jenny Williams
Department of Economics
University of Melbourne VIC 3010
Australia
Tel: 011-61-0466169612
E-Mail: jenny@unimelb.edu.au

Frank J. Chaloupka, IV
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Economics (m/c 144)
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
601 S. Morgan Street, Room 713
Chicago, IL  60607-7121
Tel: 312/413-2287
Fax: 312/996-3344;630/801-8870
E-Mail: fjc@uic.edu

Henry Wechsler
677 Huntington Ave Boston, MA 02115
E-Mail: hwechsle@hsph.harvard.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2002-06-01
AB  - 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.
ER  -