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ABSTRACT
This study attempts to analyze the existence and magnitude of social interactions in alcohol-impaired driving among Spanish adolescents. Using a wave of data collected from 25,473 Spanish students between 14 and 18 years old, we estimate the cross-sectional association between alcohol-impaired driving and several predictors. We examine the prevalence of this behavior among classmates, which requires the use of two-stage least squares to deal with the endogeneity of the peer variable. The alcohol-impaired driving behavior of classmates is associated with a higher probability of being involved in the same behavior, and we find that this behavior is positively associated with the father drinking.
Funding
The authors are grateful for financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economics (Project ECO2012-34828).