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Sunday, May 24, 2009

ALCOHOL USE AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AMONG ADOLESCENTS

Do peer-effects exist within and/or between the majority population and
immigrants?
WORKING PAPER No 7 / 2009


Are adolescents who attend schools with a high level of alcohol use more
likely to use alcohol themselves? This paper analyzes peer-effects in adolescent alcohol use based on a survey of 13,337 adolescents in Sweden in 2005. The empirical analysis uses multi-level logistic model to handle non-observable heterogeneity between the schools and the results show that attending a school with a high level of alcohol use is a strong predictor of alcohol use for the individual. However, a positive association is only
seen within Swedes and within non-Swedes (1st and 2nd generation immigrants).

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