The Economics Of Alcohol Abuse And Alcohol-Control Policies
Health AffairsPublished 1 March 2002
Philip J. Cook, Michael J. Moore
Citations178
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score4.46
SNIP3.04
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
The most important finding from the economics literature is that consumers tend to drink less ethanol, and have fewer alcohol-related problems, when alcoholic beverage prices are increased or alcohol availability is restricted.
Abstract
Economic research has contributed to the evaluation of alcohol policy through empirical analysis of the effects of alcohol-control measures on alcohol consumption and its consequences. It has also provided an accounting framework for defining and comparing costs and benefits of alcohol consumption and related policy interventions, including excise taxes. The most important finding from the economics literature is that consumers tend to drink less ethanol, and have fewer alcohol-related problems, when alcoholic beverage prices are increased or alcohol availability is restricted. That set of findings is relevant for policy purposes because alcohol abuse imposes large "external" costs on others. Important challenges remain, including developing a better understanding of the effects of drinking on labor-market productivity.
Keywords
MedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
Journal of Political EconomyA Theory of Rational Addiction
3,792 Citations1988Gary S. Becker, Kevin Murphy
British Journal of AddictionThe Validity of Self‐Reported Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Problems: A Literature Review
555 Citations1982Lorraine T. Midanik
It is concluded that more emphasis should be placed on developing new ways to validate alcohol consumption and alcohol problems so that researchers can continue to refine their data collection techniques in order to maintain confidence in their findings.
British Journal of AddictionThe Collectivity of Drinking Cultures: A Theory of the Distribution of Alcohol Consumption.*
506 Citations1985Ole‐Jørgen Skog
It is argued that Ledermann's so-called single-distribution theory is not based on substantial hypotheses about human drinking behaviour, and that it therefore fails to explain anything, and an alternative theory of the distribution of alcohol consumption is outlined.
Journal of Health EconomicsAlcohol policies and highway vehicle fatalities
321 Citations1996Christopher J. Ruhm
In the preferred models, most of the regulations have little or no impact on traffic mortality, and by contrast, higher beer taxes are associated with reductions in crash deaths and this result is relatively robust across specifications.
The Bell Journal of EconomicsThe Effect of Liquor Taxes on Heavy Drinking
320 Citations1982Philip J. Cook, George Tauchen
Harvard University Press eBooksThe Costs of Poor Health Habits
270 Citations1991Willard G. Manning, Emmett B. Keeler +3 more
Conceptual framework data and statistical methods the external costs of smoking the External costs of heavy drinking the external Costs of sedentary life-styles conclusions, limitations and implications.
Journal of Public EconomicsState alcohol policies, teen drinking and traffic fatalities
268 Citations1999Thomas S. Dee
Journal of Health EconomicsDrinking and schooling
200 Citations1993Philip J. Cook, Michael J. Moore
The results indicate that heavy drinking in high school reduces the average number of years of schooling completed following high school, and students who spend their high school years in states with relatively high taxes and minimum age are more likely to graduate from college.
American Journal of Public Health and the Nations HealthEpidemiology of cirrhosis of the liver: national mortality data.
199 Citations1967Milton Terris
The purpose of the present paper is to utilize additional data which have become available during the past 15 years to evaluate the conclusion reached by Jolliffe and Jellinek that a significant association exists betweenChanges in the death rate from cirrhosis of the liver and changes in the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Journal of Health EconomicsThe effects of beer taxes on physical child abuse
159 Citations2000Sara Markowitz, Michael Grossman
Results indicate that increases in the beer tax may decrease the incidence of violence committed by females but not by males.
Journal of Research on AdolescenceEffects of Alcohol Price Policy on Youth: A Summary of Economic Research
159 Citations1994Michael Grossman, Frank J. Chaloupka +2 more
Journal of Health EconomicsAlcohol use and wages: New results from the national household survey on drug abuse
158 Citations1998Gary A. Zarkin, Michael T. French +2 more
The results do suggest that men who use alcohol have approximately 7% higher wages than men who do not drink, and this apparent wage premium is approximately the same over a wide range of alcohol consumption.
Economic InquiryDRINKING AGE LAWS AND HIGHWAY MORTALITY RATES: CAUSE AND EFFECT
157 Citations1987Henry Saffer, Michael Grossman
Behavioral Studies of Alcoholism
156 Citations1972Nancy K. Mello
JAMAThe Taxes of Sin
153 Citations1989Willard G. Manning
The lifetime, discounted costs that smokers and drinkers impose on others through collectively financed health insurance, pensions, disability insurance, group life insurance, fires, motor-vehicle accidents, and the criminal justice system are estimated.
The Journal of Law and EconomicsSex Under the Influence: The Effect of Alcohol Policy on Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates in the United States
142 Citations2000Harrell W. Chesson, Paul Harrison +1 more
Evidence that sexually transmitted disease rates are responsive to increases in alcohol taxes and in the drinking age is presented and quasi‐experimental analysis of alcohol policy changes supports these findings and offers evidence that increases in the Drinking age reduce STD rates among youth.
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Health and SocietyEmployee Assistance Programs
138 Citations1982Diana Chapman Walsh
The most recent of a series of surveys of United States corporations, conducted for the NIAAA, found that the number of executives reporting the existence of a company alcoholism program had more than doubled since the first survey seven years earlier.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity MicroeconomicsAlcohol Consumption and Young Adults' Socioeconomic Status
129 Citations1994Donald Kenkel, David C. Ribar +2 more
Policy initiatives still under consideration include further tax increases, requirements for sterner warning labels, mandated insurance coverage of alcoholism treatment, and restrictions on alcohol advertising, especially advertising targeted at young drinkers.
Journal of Studies on AlcoholChanges in American drinking patterns and problems, 1967-1984.
121 Citations1987Michael E. Hilton, Walter Clark
There were few significant differences in drinking patterns with the exception of a small increase in the percentage of men who were abstainers in 1984, and mixed findings were obtained with regard to drinking problems.
PsychopharmacologyExperimental analysis of the ?happy hour?: Effects of purchase price on alcohol consumption
117 Citations1978Thomas F. Babor, Jack H. Mendelson +2 more
It is demonstrated that the afternoon price reduction significantly increased alcohol consumption in both casual and heavy drinkers, and reinstatement of the standard purchase price effectively suppressed drinking in both groups.
American Economic ReviewGender differences in labor market effects of alcoholism
103 Citations1991John Mullahy, Jody L. Sindelar
PubMedLife-cycle effects of alcoholism on education, earnings, and occupation.
87 Citations1989John Mullahy, Jody L. Sindelar
It is found that early onset of alcoholism significantly retards educational attainment, and the life-cycle effects of alcoholism on human capital formation and labor market outcomes are examined.
Accident Analysis & PreventionIncidence and cost of alcohol-involved crashes in the United States
68 Citations1994Ted R. Miller, L J Blincoe
A combination of increased public awareness and strong legal sanctions has been effective in reducing the incidence of alcohol-involved driving and the proportion of injuries in crashes that police reported were alcohol- involved dropped by 37% between 1982-1984 and 1990.
BMJTaxation of alcoholic beverages.
27 Citations1991Les Gordon
A significant survival advantage associated with postoperative infusion of fluorouracil into the portal vein has been found, reaching a 60% reduction in the odds of death.
Drink, Temperance and the Working Class in Nineteenth Century Germany
22 Citations2019James S. Roberts
Journal of Health EconomicsIncreasing the federal excise taxes on alcoholic beverages
8 Citations1988Philip J. Cook