2020
DOI: 10.1002/hec.4188
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Pregnancy persistently reduces alcohol purchases: Causal evidence from scanner data

Abstract: We analyze household‐level changes in alcohol consumption in response to pregnancy. Using scanner data, we identify households with a pregnant household member. Within an event study and a dynamic difference‐in‐differences estimation, we find that during a first pregnancy, households reduce their alcohol purchases by 36%. After pregnancy, purchases of alcohol are 34% lower than before pregnancy. We do not find any effect during the second pregnancy. One possible explanation for our result is that lower consump… Show more

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“…Households purchase more encouraged food and less discouraged ones consistent with dietary guidance. Janssen and Parslow (2021) find the first pregnancy reduces household alcohol purchases by 36% during the pregnancy and by 34% after pregnancy, but no effect during the second pregnancy. Some studies also use Nielsen data to assess cigarette, sleep aid and drug consumption.…”
Section: Mortalitymentioning
confidence: 76%
“…Households purchase more encouraged food and less discouraged ones consistent with dietary guidance. Janssen and Parslow (2021) find the first pregnancy reduces household alcohol purchases by 36% during the pregnancy and by 34% after pregnancy, but no effect during the second pregnancy. Some studies also use Nielsen data to assess cigarette, sleep aid and drug consumption.…”
Section: Mortalitymentioning
confidence: 76%
“…Each year, the households report demographic characteristics, including income, household composition, marital status, employment status, and geographic location. Within household variation in demographic characteristics in the NielsenIQ Consumer Panel has been used widely in the literature, including changes in location (Allcott et al, 2019;Hut, 2020), employment status (Dubé et al, 2018;Hinnosaar, 2018), household composition (Hinnosaar, 2019Janssen and Parslow, 2021), and income (Dubé et al, 2018;Argente and Lee, 2021).…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Clark and Etilé (2006) state that spousal correlation in smoking behaviour is the result of correlations in the individual effects, which they interpret as evidence of assortative matching. Finally, Janssen and Parslow (2021) conclude spillover effects exist within a household when looking at the impact of pregnancy on alcohol consumption.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%