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Alcohol Advertising and Alcohol Consumption by Adolescents

Saffer, Henry - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the effects of alcohol advertising on adolescent alcohol … consumption. The theory of brand capital is used to explain the effects of advertising on consumption. The industry response … advertising data. The approach in this paper to maximizing the variance in advertising data is to employ cross sectional data. The …

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Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Advertising Bans

Saffer, Henry - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between alcohol advertising bans and alcohol … consumption. Most prior studies have found no effect of advertising on total alcohol consumption. A simple economic model is … advertising bans as endogenous. The primary conclusions of this study are that alcohol advertising bans decrease alcohol …

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Alcohol Advertising and Motor Vehicle Fatalities

Saffer, Henry - 1994

The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the effect of alcohol advertising on motor vehicle fatalities. The … concept of an industry level advertising response function is developed and other empirical issues in estimating the effects … of advertising are reviewed. The data set consists of quarterly observations, from 1986 to 1989, for 75 advertising …

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An Economic Analysis of Alcohol, Drugs, and Violent Crime in the National Crime Victimization Survey

Markowitz, Sara - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct relationship between the prices of alcohol and drugs and the incidence of criminal violence in a nationally representative sample of individuals in the United States. The positive association between substance use and violence is well...

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Criminal Violence and Alcohol Beverage Control : Evidence from an International Study

Markowitz, Sara - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the price of alcoholic beverages and the incidence of criminal violence in different countries around the world. The positive association between alcoholic beverage consumption and violence is well documented, as is the negative...

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Alcohol

Cook, Philip J. - 1999

Excess drinking is associated with lost productivity, accidents, disability, early death, crime, neglect of family responsibilities, and personality deterioration. These and related concerns have justified special restrictions on alcoholic-beverage commerce and consumption. The nature and extent...

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Demographic Differentials in the Demand for Alcohol and Illicit Drugs

Saffer, Henry - 1998

The purpose of this paper is to estimate demographic differentials in alcohol and illicit drug use, participation, own price effects and cross price effects. This paper uses a data set of over 49,000 individuals from the National Household Survey of Drug Abuse and links drug and alcohol prices...

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Alcohol consumption and Tax Differentials Between Beer, Wine and Spirits

Saffer, Henry - 1989

Several public health interest groups in the United States have recently called for equalization of the federal tax on a unit of alcohol in beer, in wine and in spirits. This paper provides some new empirical evidence of what effect alcohol tax differentials have on total alcohol consumption....

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Effects of Alcoholic Beverage Prices and Legal Drinking Ages on Youth Alcohol Use

Coate, Douglas - 1986

Based on an analysis of the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, conducted between 1976 and 1980, we find that the frequency of the consumption of beer, the most popular alcoholic beverage among youths, is inversely related to the real price of beer and to the minimum legal...

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The Effect of Changes in Alcohol Tax Differentials on Alcohol Consumption

Gehrsitz, Markus - 2020

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 and wine taxes were raised sharply and unexpectedly in...

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