Heterogeneity in the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption: a quantile regression approach
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2010-05-25T12:07:20Z
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This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking
on children’s later consumption of alcohol – which is frequently found to be of
positive sign – exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this
effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution
of children’s alcohol consumption, conventional regression analyses that focus
on the mean effect may substantially underrate parental drinking as a risk factor
for children’s later alcohol abuse. In our empirical application, we address
this issue by applying censored quantile regression methods to German survey
data. The supposed pattern of heterogeneity is indeed found in the data, at
least for daily parental drinking. In addition, the intergenerational transmission
of alcohol consumption exhibits gender-specific heterogeneity. JEL classification: C14, I12, J62
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Alcohol consumption, Censored quantile regression, Heterogeneity, Intergenerational transmission