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C. Carpenter and C. Dobkin, “The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2011, pp. 133-156.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.25.2.133

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• TITLE: Peer-Pressure and Rational Underage Binge-Drinking

  AUTHORS: Amnon Levy

  KEYWORDS: Minimum Age; Peer Pressure; Rationality; Binge-Drinking

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.4 No.1, February 18, 2014

  ABSTRACT: This paper provides a utility-based definition of binge-drinking and examines the compatibility of this phenomenon with a rational decision making. Prohibition of young people’s consumption of alcohol is frequently violated by binge-drinking in groups. The analysis considers the roles of peer-pressure, full price of alcohol and crowding in underage group-drinking sessions and identifies the conditions for binge-drinking by expected utility maximizing members. Rational binge-drinking occurs when the impact of the peer-pressure on the individual member’s utility exceeds the loss of utility from the forgone spending on all other goods associated with the expected full marginal cost of consuming alcohol.