Barron, Kai; Bradshaw, Debbie; Parry, Charles D. H.; … - 2021
evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find … that the policy reduced the number of unnatural deaths by 21 per day, or approximately 740 over the five-week period. This … constitutes a 14% decrease in the total number of deaths due to unnatural causes. We argue that this represents a lower bound on …