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Teenagers who binge-drink during high school may have a harder time finding a job compared to their non-binge drinking counterparts, but when they do land a job, their earning potential averages 6 percent higher, according to researchers in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research...
However, the relationship between binge-drinking and wages is not necessarily direct.“It doesn’t make sense to think about it as a causal relationship,” warned Chatterji. “The data suggests that there are unobserved factors associated with drinking and...
Unexpectedly, the data showed that the wage premium only applied to males; no correlation between binge-drinking and wages was found for females.
Surveyors defined binge drinking as consecutively drinking five or more drinks in one night for a man, four or more for a woman.
“Going out?” That’s out of touch. “Getting wasted?” Waste of breath. If it’s Friday night (or Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday for that matter), cool college kids are ditching drinks and snubbing soirees, opting...