We investigate the contemporaneous mortality consequences of alcohol prohibition laws introduced in America between 1900 and 1920. We improve on existing studies by constructing a time-varying measure of prohibition at the state-level that corrects for the timing of prohibition enforcement and...

This paper estimates the social cost of alcohol consumption in Uruguay. The estimated social cost includes direct costs - such as medical, judicial system and property destruction costs - as well as indirect costs - which includes, e.g, premature death, disability and repression costs. The...

The SNP Government in Scotland introduced Minimum Price per Unit (MPU) for alcohol in the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012. A challenge to those provisions was brought by the Scotch Whisky Association and others in SWA and Others for Judicial Review of the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing)...

Abstract. Numerous economic studies examine effects of alcohol price and tax changes on drinking, drinking patterns and alcohol-related harms. The consensus view is that prices are an effective instrument for addressing issues of heavy drinking, binge drinking, and adverse outcomes associated...

I use a nationally representative dataset to examine the impact of a statewide alcohol prohibition in Bihar on alcohol consumption by social groups. I use a difference-in-differences approach and employ robust checks to address endogeneity concerns and report causal estimates. The prohibition...

Despite a recent and dramatic re-evaluation of the health consequences of alcohol consumption, very little is known about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as later-life mortality. Here, we investigate how state by year variation in alcohol control arising...

Alcohol, after tobacco, is the second most important cause of cancers, the second leading cause of death worldwide. WHO, in addition to calling on governments to strengthen implementation of high- impact cost-effective policy options to reduce the harm done by alcohol, calls on alcohol producers...