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Abstract #304516

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Activity Number: 495
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 11, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #304516
Title: The Relationship between Hours Worked and Alcohol Use Disorders
Author(s): Richard Bryant*+ and V. A. Samaranayake
Companies: University of Missouri, Rolla and University of Missouri, Rolla
Address: G9 Harris Hall, Rolla, MO, 65409, United States
Keywords: Labor Productivity ; Alcohol Dependence ; Substance Abuse ; Longitudinal Analysis ; NLSY
Abstract:

The relationship between an individual's annual hours worked and various measures of alcohol use disorders is estimated using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Previous research on wages, hours worked, and employment, using this data has focused on the relationship between these productivity measures and frequency and quantity of alcohol use variables. An emerging contention among some researchers is that while alcohol consumption measures may not affect labor productivity, measures such as alcohol use disorders that reflect problematic drinking do. A time-series, cross-sectional model is used to estimate the relationship between annual hours worked of individuals reported in two time periods and standard labor supply determining characteristics as well as measures of alcohol use disorders constructed in the spirit of criteria used in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third and fourth editions. Also, the relationship between hours worked and other indicators shown in the literature to be related to alcohol dependence or abuse---such as early onset of drinking, family history of alcoholism, and "binge" drinking---are investigated.

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