Alcohol is considered one of the most serious threats to population health, and to mitigate its negative consequences … exceptionally liberal youth alcohol culture, introduced a minimum age for purchasing alcoholic beverages as late as in 1998 …, prohibiting those below 15 to buy alcohol. Previous studies from the U.S. and a few other contexts have provided substantial …

morbidity. Regression discontinuity estimates show that legal access to alcohol increases the frequency and intensity of … drinking, which results in more hospital admissions due to alcohol intoxication. The effects are stronger for boys and … access to alcohol is very high and hardly changes at the MLDA. However, teenagers consider binge drinking at weekends to be …

the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related to violent crime. During this period, 86 … out of 105 counties in Kansas voted to legalize the sale of alcohol to the general public for on-premises consumption. We … legalizing the sale of alcohol to the general public for on-premises consumption is associated with an 11 percent increase in …

effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of use of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and other drugs. We find that … being a PK significantly reduces alcohol use. This effect comes exclusively from a reduction in the probability of any … alcohol use and this increased abstinence among children of the clergy persists into adulthood. These results are consistent …

alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological … effects of alcohol intoxication from those mediated by expectations, as we compare behaviors of three groups of subjects …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but …