this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …

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 …

analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …