Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75048 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
LICOS Discussion Paper No. 316
Publisher: 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Leuven
Abstract: 
Starting around 1996, Russia witnessed a strong growth in beer consumption, leading to a fivefold growth in average beer consumption and making beer the most important alcoholic drink today. We use survey data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to analyze individual detfirminants of beer drinking. Using both lagged and simultaneous measures to establish lower and upper bounds on the peer effect, we show that the decision to drink beer is strongly influenced by the average behavior of the individual's peer group. We find that this peer effect may account for one-third to one-half of the rise of beer in Russia.
Subjects: 
peer effects
Russia
alcohol
beer consumption
dynamic linear probability model
JEL: 
I12
D12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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