Mundt Marlon P, French Michael T
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53715, USA.
Appl Econ. 2013 Jan 1;45(23):3329-3339. doi: 10.1080/00036846.2012.707773. Epub 2012 Aug 2.
We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to study how sociability and adolescent alcohol use impact personal income as a young adult. We find that factors which enhance not only individual sociability but also social interaction at the community level are positively linked to future earnings of adolescents. Adolescents whose friends and friends of friends have greater sociability reap long-term labor market rewards into adulthood. After adjusting for individual and community sociability, the effect of teenage alcohol consumption on labor market earnings as young adults is reduced. Our results suggest that earnings premiums associated with adolescent alcohol consumption may be partially explained by social network dynamics.
我们使用青少年健康全国纵向调查（Add Health）的数据，来研究社交能力和青少年饮酒行为如何影响其成年后的个人收入。我们发现，那些不仅能增强个人社交能力，还能提升社区层面社交互动的因素，与青少年未来的收入呈正相关。其朋友以及朋友的朋友社交能力更强的青少年，在成年后能从劳动力市场获得长期回报。在对个人和社区社交能力进行调整后，青少年饮酒对其成年后劳动力市场收入的影响有所降低。我们的研究结果表明，与青少年饮酒相关的收入溢价，可能部分可由社交网络动态来解释。
