Social jobs and the returns to drinking

Scott J Adams; John S Heywood; Darin F Ullman; Shrathinth Venkatesh

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101149

Social jobs and the returns to drinking

Scott J Adams, John S Heywood, Darin F Ullman, Shrathinth Venkatesh

Centre for Health Economics

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Abstract

We uniquely show that the returns to drinking in social jobs exceed those in non-social jobs. The higher returns remain when controlling for worker personality, when including individual fixed effects and in a series of robustness exercises. This showing fits the hypothesis that drinking assists the formation of social capital, capital that has greater value in social jobs. We are also the first to show that drinking may proxy both general and specific social capital formation. Drinking during a previous employer and during a current employer have returns and each have higher returns in a current social job.

Original language	English
Article number	101149
Number of pages	12
Journal	Economics and Human Biology
Volume	46
Early online date	19 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101149
Publication status	Published - Aug 2022

Keywords

Humans
Occupations
Personality
Social Capital

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