A large literature has documented significant public health benefits associated with the minimum legal drinking age in … 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 …

, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on the diversity of the diet in Russia between 1994 and 2005. All those … aspects of nutritional behavior are important inputs to the production of health. A dynamic panel data model is used to … estimate demand functions for fat, protein, alcohol, cigarettes and diversity of the diet. The results suggest the existence of …

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 …

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also … document a sharp drop in violent crimes, indicating a tight link between alcohol and aggressive behavior in society. Our …

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also … document a sharp drop in violent crimes, indicating a tight link between alcohol and aggressive behaviour in society. Our …