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- Title
'Til booze do us part: alcohol consumption and marital dissolution.
- Authors
Huikari, Sanna; Korhonen, Marko; Puhakka, Mikko
- Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between alcohol consumption and divorces in 23 OECD countries from 1960 to 2010. We employ the differenced fixed-effect panel regression and panel vector error-correction models. We establish a significant unidirectional Granger causality from alcohol consumption to divorce rates across countries. Furthermore, we discover a long-run equilibrium relation between divorce rates and alcohol consumption. The results are robust, since they do not change even if we include other socioeconomic factors in the regression.
- Subjects
OECD countries; ALCOHOLISM; DIVORCE; MARITAL disruption; GRANGER causality test; SOCIOECONOMIC factors
- Publication
Empirical Economics, 2016, Vol 51, Issue 2, p831
- ISSN
0377-7332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00181-015-1017-9