Alcohol abuse and employment: a second look
酒精滥用与就业:重新考察
Abstract Based on data from the 1988 Alcohol Supplement of the National Health Interview Survey, Mullahy and Sindelar ( 1996 ) (M&S) find, for both men and women, that alcohol abuse results in reduced employment and increased unemployment. The estimates from which they drew these inferences were obtained via the instrumental variables (IV) method, which was implemented in order to account for the potential endogeneity of problem drinking. Though these IV estimates…