primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access to alcohol. It is important to keep in mind, though, that … policymakers have a wide variety of alcohol-control options available to them, and understanding how these policies may complement … alcohol has effects on motor vehicle accidents of any type in New South Wales, despite having large effects on drinking and on …

In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do … endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may provide a biased picture of the impact of alcohol consumption on …

I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and … demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol consumption among male peers. This relationship is … groups, and is distinctly different from any influence of the alcohol consumption of female peers which is shown to have no …

We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary … without market imperfections can result in suboptimal outcomes for which government intervention has greater potential to …

We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that … limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a natural experiment in Illinois where spirits … construct representative and consistent measures of alcohol prices and sales from scanner data collected for hundreds of …

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 …

location, cross-cohort variation in the minimum legal drinking age driven by a 2014 reform, and survey data of alcohol …/drug consumption and mobility behaviors. We conclude that the bundle of access to weak alcohol, bars/clubs and smoking increases … victimization at 16 and that age 18 rights (hard alcohol, marijuana coffee shops) exacerbate this risk; vehicle access does not play …

In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic … other predictors of alcohol consumption or cross-border effects. A brief discussion of the policy implications of our …