This study examines the impact of increasing the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (from 16 to 18 years old) on the academic performance, substance use, and peer behaviours of teenagers. Using a difference-in-discontinuities design, we exploit regional MLDA reforms in Spain and PISA data to identify...

Alcohol, after tobacco, is the second most important cause of cancers, the second leading cause of death worldwide. WHO, in addition to calling on governments to strengthen implementation of high- impact cost-effective policy options to reduce the harm done by alcohol, calls on alcohol producers...

Alcohol exclusion provisions, embedded in the Uniform Accident and Sickness Policy Provision Law (UPPL), allow health insurance providers to punish alcohol consumption by permitting them to deny claims for injuries stemming from alcohol impairment or the use of non-prescribed narcotics. Although...

Over the past decades, many European countries have raised the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) from 16 to 18 years. This study provides novel evidence of the impact of this policy on educational outcomes by exploiting the staggered timing of MLDA changes across Spanish regions. Raising the...

Hedonic models that seek to explain the observable variation in wine and beer prices have so far included alcohol by volume (ABV) only as a control variable without paying much attention to the magnitude of the coefficient and without questioning the implicit assumption that the impact of ABV on...

I use a nationally representative dataset to examine the impact of a statewide alcohol prohibition in Bihar on alcohol consumption by social groups. I use a difference-in-differences approach and employ robust checks to address endogeneity concerns and report causal estimates. The prohibition...

Despite a recent and dramatic re-evaluation of the health consequences of alcohol consumption, very little is known about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as later-life mortality. Here, we investigate how state by year variation in alcohol control arising...

This study examines the impact of repealing Sunday blue laws on alcohol sales and retail competition, focusing on Connecticut's 2012 policy change allowing Sunday beer sales in grocery stores. Using nationwide data from 2004 to 2021, we find a short-term increase in beer sales post-policy...

Unexpected mobility disruptions during lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 became 'tipping points' with the potential to alter pre-pandemic routines sensitive to socialisation. This paper investigates the impact of lockdown exposure on alcohol consumption. We document two findings using...

Unexpected mobility disruptions during lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 became 'tipping points' with the potential to alter pre-pandemic routines sensitive to socialisation. This paper investigates the impact of lockdown exposure on alcohol consumption. We document two findings using...

Despite a recent and dramatic re-evaluation of the health consequences of alcohol consumption, very little is known about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as later-life mortality. Here, we investigate how state by year variation in alcohol control arising...

Another quiet revolution is taking place in the alcoholic beverage markets: a trend toward lower-alcohol and even no-alcohol beverages, especially in the world's higher-income countries. This new trend adds to the long-term consumer trend in affluent countries of substituting quality for...

This study investigates the effect that social group influences have on the purchase intention of premium alcohol by adapting the theory of planned behaviour. The moderating effect of the need to save face and conform to a social group's expectations on the purchase intention of premium alcohol...

This study investigates the impact of product variety on alcohol purchasing patterns in the United States. Although per capita alcohol consumption declined between 1970 and 2000, it has experienced a gradual increase in recent years. By utilizing product-level and household scanner data, I...

We study the impact of Federal alcohol Prohibition in 1919 on workers in the alcohol industry and their families using newly linked census records that allow us to follow spouses, sons and daughters. Immediately after Prohibition, men previously working in alcohol-related industries were less...

Federal prohibition was one of the most ambitious policy interventions in US history. However, the removal of restrictions on alcohol after 1933 was not uniform. Using a new balanced panel on annual deaths, we find that city-level repeal is associated with a 14.7% decrease in homicide...

Minimum unit pricing (MUP) sets a floor price on a unit of alcohol to prevent the sale of ‘cheap’ drinks, with the aim of reducing alcohol related harm. MUP was introduced in Scotland on 1 May 2018 at 50p per unit. This study estimates the financial cost to consumers in the four years since...

What impact do mass civil society groups have on public policy? We study this issue by analyzing opposition to national prohibition by German-American groups and associations in the early twentieth century, before and after state-sponsored suppression of them that coincided with U.S. entry to...

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...

We examine how market structure, measured as the number of firms, affects prices, quantities, product assortment, and consumer surplus. Our analysis exploits Washington’s deregulation of spirit sales, which generated exogenous variation in market structure across the state. Consistent with the...

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...

An address to the Ōtara community, delivered on 5 May 2010. The address provides an overview of the Law Commission’s review of New Zealand’s liquor laws. It discusses a range of issues identified during consultation with the Ōtara community, including the density of alcohol outlets in...

An address to the Alcohol Advisory Council's “Working Together” conference, delivered on 15 May 2009. The address focuses on the health and injury-related consequences of alcohol consumption, from foetal alcohol disorders to chronic diseases. It argues that the risks associated with alcohol...

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...

Marijuana prohibition ended in Canada in 2018 when marijuana was legalized at the federal level. Marijuana prohibition in the United States has de factor ended in a large percentage of states as marijuana has been legalized at the state level (even while it remains illegal under federal law)....

Fluorotelomer alcohols (FTOHs) are a kind of volatile monomers that can be released from FTOH-based products and their ubiquitous occurrence raises concerns for their plant uptake behaviors. To study plant uptake pathway, translocation, and transformation characteristics of 8:2 FTOH, ryegrass (...

Due to that manganese-based Prussian blue analogues (Mn-PBAs) have a rigid and open 3D framework and adjustable redox potential, coupled with nontoxic nature, they could be effectively applied in various medicinal and biomedical fields. In this study, we reported the nanozyme activity of Mn-PBA...

The high-selectivity solar-driven catalytic production of value-added fuels, such as liquid alcohol from CO 2 , represents an ideal energy storage and conversion pathway. However, catalysts facilitating a practical CO 2 reduction approach are currently unavailable. The present work addresses...

Highly efficient synthesis of 1,4-pentanediol (1,4-PDO) from industrialized biomass-based products is still a challenge due to the inherent chemical stability of intermediate product γ-valerolactone. The aim of the present research was to evaluate the influence of synthetic conditions of CuMgAl...

The pure and silver nitrate-doped polyvinyl alcohol films were synthesized using Dip Coating method. The effect of different concentration of silver nitrate (AgNO 3 ) on the electrical and optical properties of Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films were investigated. The synthesized composite films were...

Extensive application on metal chalcogenide in the field of catalyst has led us to present a one-step hydrothermal synthesis of hybrids consisting of nickel sulfide in form of Ni3S4-NiS (NN) and hybrids of this catalyst with reduced graphene oxide (Ni3S4–NiS-rGO). After accurate physical...

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the effect on alcohol abuse of banning broadcast advertising of alcoholic beverages. The effect of a ban cannot be studied using data from one country because the adoption of new advertising bans is an infrequent event and requires many years...