ArticleIndustrial relations2013
Does Unemployment Lead to Greater Alcohol Consumption?
Article in Industrial relations, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Association of Gender, Sexual Orientation, Socioeconomic Factors, and Sexual Violence with Hazardous Alcohol and Cannabis Use in University Students from Spain.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
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- A longitudinal study of alcohol consumption among adults in Victoria, Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2024Article
- Changes in alcohol consumption according to the duration of unemployment: prospective findings from the French CONSTANCES cohort.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Reasons for alcohol use and non-use by underage U.S. autistic youth: A qualitative study.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023Article
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- Can the asymmetry of Okun's law be interpreted from a social perspective? Evidence from the World Bank.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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- Employee work status, mental health, substance use, and career turnover intentions: An examination of restaurant employees during COVID-19.International journal of hospitality management · 2021Article
- Negative Consequences of Alcohol Use among People Living with HIV.Substance use & misuse · 2021Article
- Risky Alcohol Drinking Pattern and Its Association with Educational Attainment and Wealth Index among Adult Men Population in Ethiopia: Further Analysis of 2016 Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey.Journal of addiction · 2021Article
- Regional employment and individual worklessness during the Great Recession and the health of the working-age population: Cross-national analysis of 16 European countries.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
- Problem drinking, wellbeing and mortality risk in Chinese men: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Using panel data from Waves 1 and 2 of the NESARC, we estimate gender-specific effects of changes in employment status on overall alcohol consumption, binge drinking episodes, and a diagnosis of alcohol abuse and/or dependence. We employ various fixed-effects models to address potential bias from unobserved and time-invariant individual heterogeneity. All results show a positive and significant effect of unemployment on drinking behaviors and the findings are robust to numerous sensitivity tests. Perhaps macroeconomic policy decisions intended to stimulate the economy during economic downturns should also consider the avoided personal costs and externalities associated with alcohol misuse.
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