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Bethany L. Peters
Researcher at Rhodes College
Publications - 4
Citations - 137
Bethany L. Peters is an academic researcher from Rhodes College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Earnings & Consumption (economics). The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 126 citations. Previous affiliations of Bethany L. Peters include Analysis Group.
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No Booze? You May Lose: Why Drinkers Earn More Money than Nondrinkers
TL;DR: The authors found that self-reported drinkers earn 10-14 percent more than abstainers, while nonsocial drinking leads to increased social capital, which suggests that social drinking is correlated with higher earnings.
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No Booze? You May Lose: Why Drinkers Earn More Money than Nondrinkers
TL;DR: The authors found that selfreported drinkers earn 1014 percent more than abstainers, which replicates results from other data sets, and differentiate between social and nonsocial drinking by comparing the earn-ings of those who frequent bars at least once per month and those who do not.
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The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus
Philip J. Cook,Bethany L. Peters +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reproduce the positive association between drinking and earnings, using data for adults age 27-34 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) and estimate a reduced-form equation, with alcohol prices (proxied by a new index of excise taxes) replacing the drinking variables.
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The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus
Philip J. Cook,Bethany L. Peters +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reproduce the positive association between drinking and earnings, using data for adults age 27-34 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) and estimate a reduced-form equation, with alcohol prices (proxied by a new index of excise taxes) replacing the drinking variables.