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Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany
Marcus, Jan - 2015
Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state …
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The Effect of Changes in Alcohol Tax Differentials on Alcohol Consumption
Gehrsitz, Markus - 2020
limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a natural experiment in Illinois where spirits … ethanol consumption. Our study highlights the importance of tax-induced substitution, the implications of differential tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835244
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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Smoking, Drinking, Never Thinking of Tomorrow : Income and Risky Choices Amongst Young Adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi - 2015
whether the income change was positive or negative. This is attributed to the dependence creating nature of the consumption … adequate to deal with the type of lifestyle consumption goods considered here. We indicate the lines along which a model needs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016232
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Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking
Ahammer, Alexander; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Halla, Martin; … - 2021
Low minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs), as prevalent in many European countries, are severely understudied. We use rich survey and administrative data to estimate the impact of the Austrian MLDA of 16 on teenage drinking behavior and morbidity. Regression discontinuity estimates show that legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252378
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Beauty, Underage Drinking, and Adolescent Risky Behaviours
Green, Colin; Wilson, Luke B.; Zhang, Anwen - 2022
Physically attractive individuals experience a range of advantages in adulthood including higher earnings; yet, how attractiveness influences earlier consequential decisions is not well understood. This paper estimates the effect of attractiveness on engagement in risky behaviours in...
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Alcohol Consumption Among Adults in Vietnam : Prevalence, Patterns, and its Determinants
Kumar, Santosh; Gundi, Mukta; Atre, Sagar; Ngoc, Luu; … - 2022
This study describes the prevalence and drinking patterns of alcohol consumption among adults (aged 15+ years) and … explores the association between sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption in Vietnam. A cross-sectional representative … alcohol consumption patterns. Nearly three-quarters of males (77%) and one-quarter of females (23%) were current alcohol …
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You Drink, You Drive, You Die? The Dynamics of Youth Risk Taking in Response to a Change in the Legal Drinking Age
Boes, Stefan - 2017
This paper exploits the reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 to study the dynamics of youth risk taking. Using administrative data on the universe of road accidents over a fifteen year period spanning the law change, we undertake three complimentary analyses to...
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The Effects of Health Insurance Parity Laws for Substance Use Disorder Treatment on Traffic Fatalities : Evidence of Unintended Benefits
Popovici, Ioana - 2017
Each year, 10,000 individuals die in alcohol-impaired traffic accidents in the United States, while psychoactive drugs are involved in 20% of all fatal traffic accidents. We investigate whether state parity laws for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have the unintended benefit of reducing...
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The Mechanisms of Alcohol Control
Carpenter, Christopher - 2014
A substantial economics literature documents that tighter alcohol controls reduce alcohol related harms, but far less is known about mechanisms. We use the universe of Canadian mortality records to document that Canada's Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) significantly reduces mortality rates of...
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