Lower educational attainment may predict subsequent increased alcohol use, rather than vice versa, according to study of Dutch citizens between age 14 and age 26

Lower educational attainment may predict subsequent increased alcohol use, rather than vice versa, according to study of Dutch citizens between age 14 and age 26

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261606   

Article Title: Educational level and alcohol use in adolescence and early adulthood—The role of social causation and health-related selection—The TRAILS Study

Author Countries: The Netherlands

Funding: This study is made possible by the Consortium on Individual Development (CID). CID is funded through the Gravitation program of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (grant number 024.001.003). This research is part of the TRacking Adolescents’ Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS). Organizations participating in TRAILS include various departments of the University Medical Center and University of Groningen, the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Utrecht University, the Radboud Medical Center Nijmegen, and the Parnassia Bavo group, all in the Netherlands. TRAILS has been financially supported by various grants from NWO, ZonMW, GB-MaGW, the Dutch Ministry of Justice, the European Science Foundation, BBMRI-NL, and the participating universities. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.