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The Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the United States - 1992

Appendix B, Table B.3

Ordinary Least Squares Regression Results Earnings per Hour
Dependent Variable = ln (Earnings Past Month/ Hours Worked)
Coefficients and (Asymptotic Standard Errors)

Males Females
  Reduced Model Full Model Reduced Model Full Model

Intercept

 0.0334
(0.1201)		 -0.0516
(0.1415)		 0.2809**
(0.1027)		 0.2719**
(0.1023)

Age

 0.1138**
(0.0063)		 0.0810**
(0.0068)		 0.0985**
(0.0057)		 0.0686**
(0.0053)

Age Squared

 -0.0012**
(0.0001)		 -0.0008**
(0.0001)		 -0.0011**
(0.0001)		 -0.0007**
(0.0001)

Black

 -0.3160**
(0.0247)		 -0.1706 **
(0.0245)		 -0.1623**
(0.0246)		 -0.0618**
(0.0247)

Hispanic

 -0.2617**
(0.0301)		 -0.0586*
(0.0325)		 -0.1737**
(0.0263)		 -0.0238
(0.0209)

Less than High School Graduate

   0.2628
(0.0588)		   0.1006
(0.0632)

High School Graduate

   0.4407**
(0.0632)		   0.2531**
(0.0531)

Some College

   0.5587**
(0.0536)		   0.4183**
(0.0631)

College Graduate

   0.7059**
(0.0671)		   0.5422**
(0.0618)

Graduate/Professional School

   0.8048 **
(0.0659)		   0.6524**
(0.0690)

Married or Living Together As If

   0.1443**
(0.0221)		   0.0675**
(0.0191)

Professional Occupation

   0.2755**
(0.0205)		   0.3471**
(0.0190)

Reside in Rural Area

 -0.1595**
(0.0261)		 -0.0752**
(0.0247)		 -0.2261**
(0.0304)		 -0.1662**
(0.0298)

Children Under 13 in Household

 0.0458**
(0.0083)		 0.0324**
(0.0090)		 -0.0259**
(0.0092)		 -0.0133
(0.0094)

Alcohol Dependence,
Early Drinking

 -0.1402**
(0.0485)		 -0.0695
(0.0460)		 -0.0246
(0.0864)		 -0.0007
(0.0822)

Alcohol Dependence
Ever, Later Drinking

 -0.0447*
(0.0249)		 -0.0255
(0.0226)		 -0.0307
(0.0413)		 -0.0404
(0.0385)

Drug Dependence Ever

 -0.0990**
(0.0480)		   -0.0279
(0.0457)		 0.0417
(0.0426)

Major Depression Ever

 -0.0643**
(0.0294)		 -0.0695**
(0.0280)		 -0.0490
(0.0296)		 -0.0745**
(0.0268)

*Indicates significance at 0.10 level.
**Indicates significance at 0.05 level
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