Research shows that multiple factors influence college drinking, from an individual's genetic
susceptibility to the positive and negative effects of alcohol, alcohol use during high school …

Over the past three decades, economists and others have devoted considerable effort to
assessing the impact of alcoholic-beverage taxes and prices on alcohol consumption and its …

The goal of this guideline1 is to improve the quality of care and treatment outcomes for
patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), as defined by DSM-5 (American Psychiatric …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

Although several studies have shown that marijuana use can adversely affect academic
achievement among adolescents, less research has focused on its impact on postsecondary …

This study addresses binge drinking in college as a risk factor for heavy drinking and alcohol
dependence after college. A national probability sample of 1972 college students from the …

This study tested the hypothesis that college students' substance use problems would
predict increases in skipping classes and declining academic performance, and that …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol use on high school students' quality of learning.
We estimate fixed-effects models using data from the National Longitudinal Study of …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the independent as-sociations between
DSM-IV psychiatric disorders and the failure to complete college among college entrants …

The primary statistical challenge that must be addressed when using cross‐sectional data to
estimate the consequences of consuming addictive substances is the likely endogeneity of …