Alexander C. Wagenaar | |
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Alma mater | Calvin College, University of Michigan |
Awards | Jellinek Award (1999), Innovator's Award from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2001) [1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Addiction medicine, alcoholism |
Institutions | University of Florida College of Medicine |
Thesis | The minimum legal drinking age: a time-series impact evaluation (1980) |
Alexander C. Wagenaar is professor of health outcomes and policy at the University of Florida College of Medicine, where he also serves on the graduate faculty. [1]
Wagenaar received his B.A. in sociology from Calvin College and his M.S.W. (in Program Evaluation and Research) and Ph.D. (in Health Behavior) from the University of Michigan. [1]
Wagenaar worked at the University of Michigan as a research scientist from 1980 to 1989. [2] From 1989 to 1990, he worked as a visiting scholar at the Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems. [2] From 1990 until 2004, he was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota. [2]
Wagenaar is known for his research into the beneficial effects of alcohol laws, particularly alcohol taxes. [3] [4] [5] He has also studied the effects of raising the legal drinking age in the United States to 21 on alcohol consumption. [6]
In 1999, Wagenaar received the Jellinek Award for research on alcohol. [1] In 2001, he received the Innovator's Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. [1] In 2004, he was named an ISI highly cited researcher. [1]
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