Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244447 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 6/2009
Publisher: 
Örebro University School of Business, Örebro
Abstract: 
This paper examines how the unemployment rate is related to adolescent alcohol use during a time period characterized by big societal changes using repeated cross-sectional adolescent survey data from a Swedish region, collected in 1988, 1991, 1995, 1998, 2002 and 2005. Individual level alcohol use is connected to local level unemployment rate to estimate the relationship using multilevel modeling. The results show that the unemployment rate is negatively associated with adolescents alcohol use. When the unemployment rate increases, more adolescents, mainly girls, do not drink at all. Regular drinking (2/month or more) is, on the other hand, unrelated to the unemployment rate. This implies that we may se decreases in adolescent alcohol use in the now expected real economic crisis with increasing unemployment.
Subjects: 
alcohol use
unemployment rate
multilevel methods
Sweden
JEL: 
E32
I12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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