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Binge drinking and higher pay for males?(Brief article)

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Men but not women who partied hard in high school saw an unexpected payoff later in life: a higher salary. A study of 8,500 men and women by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that men who engaged in binge drinking as 10th graders had a slightly more challenging time finding jobs later as adults, but earned about 6% more.

Authors of the report said it was unlikely that binge drinking caused higher salaries, ...

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