March Madness: NCAA Tournament Participation and College Alcohol Use

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Dustin White, Ben Cowan, Jadrian Wooten
Contemporary Economic Policy, vol. 37(3), 2019, pp. 449–461

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White, D., Cowan, B., & Wooten, J. (2019). March Madness: NCAA Tournament Participation and College Alcohol Use . Contemporary Economic Policy, 37(3), 449–461. https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12425

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White, Dustin, Ben Cowan, and Jadrian Wooten. “ March Madness: NCAA Tournament Participation and College Alcohol Use .” Contemporary Economic Policy 37, no. 3 (2019): 449–461.

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White, Dustin, et al. “ March Madness: NCAA Tournament Participation and College Alcohol Use .” Contemporary Economic Policy, vol. 37, no. 3, 2019, pp. 449–61, doi:10.1111/coep.12425.

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@article{white2019a,
  title = { March Madness: NCAA Tournament Participation and College Alcohol Use },
  year = {2019},
  issue = {3},
  journal = {Contemporary Economic Policy},
  pages = {449–461},
  volume = {37},
  doi = {10.1111/coep.12425},
  author = {White, Dustin and Cowan, Ben and Wooten, Jadrian}
}

While athletic success may improve the visibility of a university to prospective students and thereby benefit the school, it may also increase risky behavior in the current student body. Using the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, we find that a school's participation in the NCAA Basketball Tournament is associated with a 47% increase in binge drinking by male students at that school. Additionally, we find evidence that drunk driving increases by 5% among all students during the tournament.