ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2011
Heavy episodic drinking on college campuses: does changing the legal drinking age make a difference?
Article in Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Understanding the effects of alcohol policies on treatment admissions and birth outcomes among young pregnant people.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- A comparison of the responsible drinking dimensions among underage and legal drinkers: examining differences in beliefs, motives, self-efficacy, barriers and intentions.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2014Article
- Regulating availability: how access to alcohol affects drinking and problems in youth and adults.Alcohol research & health : the journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism · 2011Review
- The Big Impact of Small Groups on College Drinking.Journal of artificial societies and social simulation : JASSSArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThis article extends the compartmental model previously developed by Scribner et al. in the context of college drinking to a mathematical model of the consequences of lowering the legal drinking age.
methodUsing data available from 32 U.S. campuses, the analyses separate underage and legal age drinking groups into an eight-compartment model with different alcohol availability (wetness) for the underage and legal age groups. The model evaluates the likelihood that underage students will incorrectly perceive normative drinking levels to be higher than they actually are (i.e., misperception) and adjust their drinking accordingly by varying the interaction between underage students in social and heavy episodic drinking compartments.
resultsThe results evaluate the total heavy episodic drinker population and its dependence on the difference in misperception, as well as its dependence on underage wetness, legal age wetness, and drinking age.
conclusionsResults suggest that an unrealistically extreme combination of high wetness and low enforcement would be needed for the policies related to lowering the drinking age to be effective.
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