{"id":42823,"date":"2018-03-13T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=42823"},"modified":"2018-03-13T13:02:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T20:02:05","slug":"booze-and-basketball-why-binge-drinking-increases-during-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/booze-and-basketball-why-binge-drinking-increases-during-march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Booze and basketball: Why binge drinking increases during March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For every tip-off during March Madness, it\u2019s a sure bet that students at the schools playing in the basketball tournament will be tipping up more beer bottles than usual.<\/p>\n

This was one of the key findings of an\u00a0analysis<\/a>\u00a0we conducted recently on the impact of the NCAA men\u2019s basketball tournament on college students\u2019 drinking behavior.<\/p>\n

We<\/a>\u00a0are all\u00a0economists<\/a>\u00a0with a keen interest in the relationship between\u00a0health and economics<\/a>. Our recent study shines light on the well-established fact that alcohol consumption \u2013 and the negative effects that come along with it \u2013 often goes hand in hand with college sports. For that reason, college sporting events represent prime opportunities to think about ways to curtail drinking among college students.<\/p>\n

A long-standing tradition<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Researchers have long known that alcohol consumption rises during college sporting events.\u00a0Study<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0has found that college students were more likely to binge drink on football game days.<\/p>\n

The same is true for college basketball. For instance, a\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0of 206 undergraduate students at Syracuse University in 2003 \u2013 when Syracuse won the NCAA men\u2019s basketball championship \u2013 found that alcohol consumption on the two game days of the championship exceeded what is typical on campus.<\/p>\n

Negative effects<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Binge drinking is associated with many harmful outcomes for the drinker and those around them. These outcomes include\u00a0lower grades and increased rates of drunk driving<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0sexual assault<\/a>. One\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0found that assaults, vandalism and arrests for disorderly conduct and alcohol-related offenses increased on college football game days in the towns that hosted the game, especially after upsets.<\/p>\n

What is it about college sports that seems to lead to increased rates of drinking? The first thing to understand is that college students binge drink and report heavy alcohol use at\u00a0higher rates<\/a>\u00a0than their peers who aren\u2019t in college. Social norms likely play a large role in this fact. For instance,\u00a0one study<\/a>\u00a0found that college students tend to think that their peers drink more than they actually do. This perception can cause individuals to believe that heavy drinking is the norm, not the exception.<\/p>\n

A different\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0found that alcohol consumption can be reduced among college students by providing them with accurate information about how often their peers drink.<\/p>\n

The role of high-stakes games<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In order to understand how a major college sporting event affects alcohol consumption across different colleges, we examined the effect of the NCAA men\u2019s basketball tournament on college students\u2019 reported alcohol use.<\/p>\n

We relied on the Harvard School of Public Health\u00a0College Alcohol Study<\/a>, which provides information on students\u2019 alcohol consumption at 43 NCAA Division I institutions in 1993, 1997, 1999 and 2001. With this data, we compared drinking rates before, during and after the tournament as well as across tournament and non-tournament schools each season.<\/p>\n

We found that nearly 60 percent of male students whose school had just played in the men\u2019s basketball tournament reported binge drinking once more in the past two weeks than a male student whose school did not play a tournament game during the survey window.<\/p>\n

Overall drinks consumed experience a similar jump, as male students at tournament schools reported drinking 6.9 additional alcoholic beverages on average during the tournament. These numbers are comparable with\u00a0elevated drinking estimates<\/a>\u00a0associated with college football game days.<\/p>\n

White males affected most<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The increase in binge drinking appears to be concentrated mostly among white male students. While 60 percent of male students binge drink more when their team plays in the NCAA Tournament, we detect no increase in alcohol consumption among female students.<\/p>\n

According to our study, approximately 1 in 3 students who are over 21 appear to binge drink more when their team plays in the NCAA tournament. One in 4 underage students report binge drinking once more when their team plays.<\/p>\n

The College Alcohol Study asked respondents about drinking and driving, so we were able to observe that students not only reported drinking more during the NCAA tournament, but that they were also about 10 percent more likely to report driving under the influence of alcohol or riding with someone who is under the influence.<\/p>\n

Our paper adds to the growing amount of evidence that alcohol consumption during college sporting events has harmful effects on society. While we do not know of any single solution for all students at all schools, we note that\u00a0reducing the availability of alcohol at sporting events<\/a>\u00a0has the ability to reduce \u201carrests, assaults, ejections from the stadium, and student referrals to the judicial affairs office.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0National Institutes of Health<\/a>\u00a0has also created resources for both\u00a0parents of college students<\/a>\u00a0and for\u00a0college administrators<\/a>\u00a0to help reduce the amount of dangerous alcohol consumption among college students.
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\nAuthor Bios:<\/strong> Dustin R. White is an Assistant Professor of Economics, Business Administration at the University of Nebraska Omaha, Benjamin Cowan is an Associate Professor of Economics at Washington State University and Jadrian Wooten is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics at Pennsylvania State University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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