The current paper uses U.S. state-level shipments data from 1970 to 2007 as provided by The Beer Institute (formerly the United States Brewers' Association) to estimate pooled time-series models of annual beer consumption on economic and demographic variables. To estimate these relationships,...

This paper uses cross-state and cross-regional time series to estimate the effect of the variation in shares of alcohol beverage types on traffic fatalities in young people, with particular emphasis on consumption of beer versus spirits, or "hard liquor". Depending on the specification,...

This paper uses cross-state and cross-regional time series to estimate the effect of the variation in shares of alcohol beverage types on traffic fatalities in young people, with particular emphasis on consumption of beer versus spirits, or “hard liquorâ€. Depending on the...