Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption – A Quantile Regression Approach

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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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-3-86788-210-1
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 186

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General ; Health Behavior ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Thema: Alcohol consumption ; intergenerational transmission ; heterogeneity ; censored quantile regression ; Alkoholkonsum ; Kinder ; Eltern ; Generationenbeziehungen ; Familiensoziologie ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schmidt, Christoph M. ; Tauchmann, Harald
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
• (wo): Essen
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37007
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ