This paper studies the impact of a ban on late‐night off‐premise alcohol sales between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in Germany. We use three large administrative data sets: (i) German diagnosis related groups‐Statistik, (ii) data from a large social health insurance, and (iii) Road Traffic Accident...

We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults in Germany. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.