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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: Evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171338
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Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177629
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Health, Economics and Ancient Greek Medicine
Lyttkens, Carl Hampus - 2011
ancient Greek medicine from the perspective of modern health economics is an interesting endeavour in that it increases our … paper, the market for secular physicians is illuminated with tools from modern economics, for example the concern for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208569
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Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics (2022) Online Early, Just Accepted, pp. 1-44
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14%. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482394
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Alcohol and Short-Run Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition
Barron, Kai; Bradshaw, Debbie; Parry, Charles D.H.; … - 2021
On July 13, 2020 a complete nation-wide ban was placed on the sale and transport of alcohol in South Africa. This paper evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find that the policy reduced the number of unnatural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430594