Cohort analysis of alcohol consumption: a double hurdle approach

Federico Perali (), David Aristei and Luca Pieroni ()

CHILD Working Papers from CHILD - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics - ITALY

Abstract: This paper describes the life-cycle alcohol consumption patterns of Italian households by decomposing gender, cohort, age and time effects and estimates the importance of demographic characteristics using a double hurdle model. The application is based on ISTAT households expenditure survey for the period 1997-2002 organized in cohorts. As expected, cohort and age effects are significant in both participation and consumption. The significance of gender and geographic differences suggests interesting policy implications.

Keywords: Alcohol consumption; double-hurdle models; birth cohorts; ageing; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 I12 J10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-05
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