Does Drinking in College Affect Your Grades?

By Stephen J. Dubner

"To some people, the following conclusion should be filed under 'Duh.' But even they might appreciate the empirical rigor undertaken by Scott E. Carrell, Mark Hoekstra, and James E. West in a new working paper called 'Does Drinking Impair College Performance? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach'. The authors point out that although the effect of alcohol on low-frequency but high-risk events — mortality and teen pregnancy, e.g. — is widely studied, 'little is known about the effect of drinking on the majority of users.' ..."

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