The effect of alcohol availability on marijuana use: Evidence from the minimum legal drinking age

Crost, Benjamin; Guerrero, Santiago

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.12.005

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“…There is a discussion in the literature whether illicit drugs and alcohol are substitutes or complements (see e.g. Williams et al 2004;Crost and Guerrero 2012;Conover and Scrimgeour 2013;Kelly and Rasul 2014). Our estimates might provide additional insights into this debate as the ban can be regarded as an exogenous reduction in excessive alcohol consumption for adolescents and young adults.…”

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Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany

Marcus

Siedler

2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractExcessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state of Baden-Württemberg banned the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10pm and 5am at off-premise outlets (e.g., gas stations, kiosks, supermarkets). We use rich monthly administrative data from a 70 percent random sample of all hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol-related hospitalizations. Applying difference-in-differences methods, we find that the policy change reduces alcohol-related hospitalizations among adolescents and young adults by about seven percent. There is also evidence of a decrease in the number of hospitalizations due to violent assault as a result of the ban. JEL: I12, I18, D04

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Section: Effects On Other Diagnosesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany

Marcus

Siedler

2015

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“…Dee (1999) highlighted complementarities in the consumption of such adult goods, exploiting the minimum legal drinking age (M LDA) to assess causal variations in terms of smoking. The same approach was also adopted by Yörük & Yörük (2011) and Crost & Guerreo (2012) to evaluate the effects of alcohol on marjuana use. Our work is related to these studies, because we share with them the idea of using an exogenous reform to evaluate the effects of smoking on alcohol consumption in Italy.…”

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The role of anti-smoking legislation on cigarette and alcohol consumption habits in Italy

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The short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking and drinking habits were investigated in this paper. In 2005, a smoking ban was introduced in Italy, and we exploited this exogenous variation to measure the effect on both smoking participation and intensity and the indirect effect on alcohol consumption. Using data from the Everyday Life Aspects survey, for the period 2001-2007, we show that the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Italy significantly affected smoking behavior. We also document significant indirect effects on alcohol consumption for the main alcoholic beverage categories. A robustness analysis is also performed, to test the extent to which unobservable variables may bias our estimated parameters. Our results are then used to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of the anti-smoking legislation in Italy.

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“…These findings point the way toward prevention programs targeting public drinking places (e. g., soliciting trained streetworkers), which may be further supported by the enforcement of regulations such as responsible beverage serving practices (Graham, Jelley, & Purcell, 2005) or structural measures targeting availability and price. There is evidence -mainly from the United States -that increasing the legal drinking age limit does have beneficial effects on consumption and harm (Crost & Guerrero, 2012), though its political feasibility can be doubted in many European settings: Increasing the legal drinking age might just displace alcohol use to more private, less-controlled settings. C-SURF findings showed that late drinking onset (after the age of 20) was associated with more harm than for alcohol users who started earlier, but did not engage in RSOD.…”

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The Swiss Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors – Findings of two Waves

Gmel

Akré

Astudillo

et al. 2015

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Abstract. Aim: To summarize published findings in peer-reviewed journals of the first two waves of the Swiss Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors (C-SURF), a longitudinal study assessing risk and protective factors of 5,987 young men during the phase of emerging adulthood (20 years at baseline, followed-up 15 months later). Methods: Included were 33 studies published until November 2014 focusing on substance use. Results: Substance use in early adulthood is a prevalent and stable behavior. The 12-month prevalence of nonmedical use of prescription drugs (10.6 %) lies between that of cannabis (36.4 %) and other illicit drugs such as ecstasy (3.7 %) and cocaine (3.2 %). Although peer pressure in the form of misconduct is associated with increased substance use, other aspects such as peer involvement in social activities may have beneficial effects. Regular sport activities are associated with reduced substance use, with the exception of alcohol use. Young men are susceptible to structural conditions such as the price of alcohol beverages or the density of on-premise alcohol outlets. Particularly alcohol use in public settings such as bars, discos or in parks (compared with private settings such as the home) is associated with alcohol-related harm, including injuries or violence. Being a single parent versus nuclear family has no effect on alcohol use, but active parenting does. Besides parenting, religiousness is an important protective factor for both legal and illegal substance use. Merely informing young men about the risks of substance use may not be an effective preventive measure. At-risk users of licit and illicit substances are more health literate, e. g., for example, they seek out more information on the internet than non-at-risk-users or abstainers. Discussion: There are a number of risk and protective substance use factors, but their associations with substance use do not necessarily agree with those found outside Europe. In the United States, for example, heavy alcohol use in this age group commonly takes place in private settings, whereas in Switzerland it more often takes place in public settings. Other behaviors, such as the nonmedical use of prescription drugs, appear to be similar to those found overseas, which may show the need for targeted preventive actions. C-SURF findings point to the necessity of establishing European studies to identify factors for designing specific preventive actions.

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The effect of alcohol availability on marijuana use: Evidence from the minimum legal drinking age

Cited by 170 publications

References 13 publications

Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany

Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany

The role of anti-smoking legislation on cigarette and alcohol consumption habits in Italy

The Swiss Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors – Findings of two Waves

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