hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol …

Germany. We exploit sharp differences in legal access to alcohol at 16 and 18 years by implementing a regression discontinuity …

, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show that the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …