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## Abstract ## Aims To examine the association between alcohol prices and age of initiation of alcohol use and the association between age of alcohol use initiation and heavy episodic drinking (HED) among adolescents in Chile. ## Design We estimated discrete‐time hazard models using retrospective data and generalized ordered probit models with repeated cross‐sectional data. ## Setting Chile. ## Participants A total of 248 336 urban youth who attended secondary school between 2003 and 2015 and self‐reported ever having tried alcohol. ## Measurements We created drinking histories from self‐reported responses of age, age of alcohol use initiation and year/month of survey. From two self‐reported responses, we created a four‐category ordinal variable of heavy episodic drinking: none, one to two, three to nine and more than 10 HED episodes in the past 30 days. We constructed a monthly measure of real alcohol prices using the all‐items and alcohol component of the Consumer Price Index compiled by Chile's statistical agency, the Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. ## Findings First, we found negative, statistically significant and policy‐meaningful associations between alcohol prices and t

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Author

Guillermo R. Paraje; G. Emmanuel Guindon; Frank J. Chaloupka

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)