Objective: Using data from the National Child Development Study, an ongoing longitudinal
birth cohort study of British youth born in 1958 (N= 9,107), we investigated the long-term
impact of heavy alcohol use at age 16 years on educational qualifications in adulthood.
Method: We used a propensity score matching approach to examine whether and for whom
heavy alcohol use predicted reduced adult educational attainment. Because of gender
differences in both heavy drinking and adult socioeconomic attainment, we examined the …