Bhattacharya, Jay; Gathmann, Christina; Miller, Grant - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5 (2013) 2, pp. 232-60
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40 percent surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper investigates an alternative...