Are There Differential Effects of Price and Policy on College Students’Drinking Intensity?

Jenny Williams, Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler

Contemporary Economic Policy, 2005, vol. 23, issue 1, 78-90

Abstract: This article investigates the impact of campus bans on alcohol use and the price of alcohol on college students’drinking intensity. The impact of a campus ban on drinking appears to depend on the ability of students to substitute off‐campus access to alcohol for on‐campus access. Where few off‐campus alternatives exist, campus bans reduce the odds that a student becomes a heavy drinker but have no impact on the odds of transitioning from abstainer to drinker. Where off‐campus alternatives are more plentiful, campus bans are less effective. Increasing the price of alcohol appears to be equally effective at reducing the likelihood of drinking and heavy drinking. (JEL)

Date: 2005
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