Education and gender affects how likely a person is to binge drink at various times throughout their life, a study of 11,500 Brits born in the same week of 1958 reveals.
For males, less education was tied to a tendency to binge-drink in their twenties, with little change as they aged. However, for women, a better education increased the odds of binge drinking in their early twenties, with the habit decreasing as they got older. Less educated women, meanwhile, were more likely to abstain in their youth and begin binge drinking in their early forties.
Overall, 36 percent of men engaged in binge drinking at age 23, while 32 percent of men binge drank at age 42. For women, these figures were 18 and 14 percent, respectively.
ABSTRACT: Social gradients in binge drinking and abstaining: trends in a cohort of British adults
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