TY - JOUR
T1 - Comment - Alcohol advertising in magazines and youth readership
T2 - Are youths disproportionately exposed?
AU - Siegel, Michael
AU - King, Charles
AU - Ostroff, Joshua
AU - Ross, Craig
AU - Dixon, Karen
AU - Jernigan, David H.
PY - 2008/7
Y1 - 2008/7
N2 - This article investigates the relationship between alcohol advertising in magazines and youth readership, while controlling for a set of magazine and readership variables related to the demand for advertising space. It reconstructs and reanalyzes a data set including count data for alcohol ads placed in 28 magazines in 2001-2003 that was the basis for a previous study, which concluded that alcohol advertisers do not target youths. We address the problem of collinearity in that data set and add an explanatory variable to explicitly model the hypothesis that alcohol advertising is preferentially directed to a young adult audience. We find that the number of alcohol advertisements in magazines increases significantly with the proportion of youth readers, even after controlling for young adult readership. Our results indicate that youths are disproportionately exposed to alcohol advertising and that reducing youth exposure to alcohol advertising remains an important public policy concern. (JEL L82, L66, M37)
AB - This article investigates the relationship between alcohol advertising in magazines and youth readership, while controlling for a set of magazine and readership variables related to the demand for advertising space. It reconstructs and reanalyzes a data set including count data for alcohol ads placed in 28 magazines in 2001-2003 that was the basis for a previous study, which concluded that alcohol advertisers do not target youths. We address the problem of collinearity in that data set and add an explanatory variable to explicitly model the hypothesis that alcohol advertising is preferentially directed to a young adult audience. We find that the number of alcohol advertisements in magazines increases significantly with the proportion of youth readers, even after controlling for young adult readership. Our results indicate that youths are disproportionately exposed to alcohol advertising and that reducing youth exposure to alcohol advertising remains an important public policy concern. (JEL L82, L66, M37)
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2007.00088.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2007.00088.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:47149084393
SN - 1074-3529
VL - 26
SP - 482
EP - 492
JO - Contemporary Economic Policy
JF - Contemporary Economic Policy
IS - 3
ER -