TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stoppel, Relika
T1  - Alcohol availability and alcohol-attributable mortality
BT  - economic implications following a change in sales policy
JF  - CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of the University of Munich's Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute
N2  - It is commonly known that irresponsible alcohol use can have adverse effects. For some people, it results in health problems, for others in productivity loss, and some experience the worst possible outcome of alcohol misuse - death. This paper estimates the effect of reduced alcohol sales hours on alcohol-attributable mortality (AAM) in Estonia. Using novel mortality data from 1997 to 2015, this paper analyzes the effect of alcohol sales policies at both the county level and the country level. By applying the difference-in-differences method and the ARIMA model, this paper finds that the alcohol sales policy reduced AAM to between 1.710 and 2.401 deaths per 100,000 per month, which equals a reduction of 31% to 40% in AAM deaths. These findings suggest that individuals who are the most at risk of dying from alcohol-attributable causes of death benefit remarkably from reduced alcohol availability.
KW  - health policy
KW  - mortality
KW  - public health
KW  - alcohol
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/cesifo/ifab008
SN  - 1610-241X
SN  - 1612-7501
VL  - 67
IS  - 4
SP  - 463
EP  - 487
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -