The effect of alcohol sales restrictions on alcohol poisoning mortality: Evidence from Russia

Skorobogatov, Alexander S.

doi:10.1002/hec.4251

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“…"Low" and "high" alcohol consumption are defined by whether a region's 1990 per capita consumption of pure ethanol was 11 There is some concern and evidence that higher prices and restrictions on legal alcohol sales might lead heavy drinkers to increase consumption of non-beverage alcohol surrogates. Skorobogatov (2021) tests for unintended effects of local strong alcohol sales hours restrictions on the consumption of surrogates using a difference-in-differences approach, exploiting varying hours restrictions introduced at different times across regions in 2005-2010. Results show that the mean hours restriction was associated with 16% higher alcohol poisoning mortality.…”

Section: Have Anti-alcohol Policies Reduced Deaths In Russia?mentioning

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Mortality in Russia Since the Fall of the Soviet Union

Brainerd

2021

Comp Econ Stud

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Section: Have Anti-alcohol Policies Reduced Deaths In Russia?mentioning

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Mortality in Russia Since the Fall of the Soviet Union

Brainerd

2021

Comp Econ Stud

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“…Material deprivation increased hazardous drinking as non-beverage alcohol was significantly cheaper 60 , 61 . Financial strain, especially among the elderly, might result in them producing and selling samogon as a means of diversifying their income, which increases the accessibility of samogon and reduces its market price due to the increased supply 62 , 63 . In addition, we found that hazardous alcohol consumption was higher among those male and female relatives who rarely communicated with their relatives—our survey informants.…”

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Hazardous alcohol consumption in slow- and fast-privatized Russian industrial towns

Gugushvili,

Azarova,

Irdam

et al. 2024

Sci Rep

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Hazardous drinking, defined as the consumption of homemade, unofficially made alcohol and non-beverages, is prevalent and accounts for a high proportion of alcohol-related deaths in Russia. Individual-level characteristics are important explanations of hazardous drinking, but they are unlikely to explain spatial variation in this type of alcohol consumption. Areas that attracted insufficient attention in the research of hazardous drinking are the legacy of industrialization and the speed of economic reforms, mainly through the privatization policy of major enterprises in the 1990s. Applying mixed-effects logistic regressions to a unique dataset from 30 industrial towns in the European part of Russia, we find that in addition to individual-level characteristics such as gender, age, marital status, education, social isolation, labor market status, and material deprivation, the types of towns where informants’ relatives resided such as industrial structure and speed of privatization also accounted for the variance in hazardous alcohol consumption among both male and female populations of the analyzed towns.

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“…This method combines the synthetic control method with IFE models and is less sensitive to small sample size than the traditional synthetic control method. It is being used by a rapidly growing literature using panel data models with U.S. county-level treatment (Cook, 2021;Cengiz and Tekgüç, 2018;Nguyen, 2020), or with treatment measured in similar smaller geographic areas in other countries (Skorobogatov, 2021;Mäkelä, 2017). As the GSC eliminates confounding factors that violate the identifying parallel trends assumption in event study designs, particularly for unemployment rate in our case, our use of the GSC provides causally interpretable results.…”

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The effects of recreational cannabis access on labor markets: evidence from Colorado

Chakraborty

Doremus

Stith

2021

IZA Journal of Labor Economics

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Recreational cannabis markets possibly increase labor demand through investments in facilities for growing, processing, and retail sales of cannabis, as well as through other industries such as manufacturing, leisure, and hospitality. However, this increase in labor demand may vary substantially across counties within a state as most states with legal recreational cannabis allow individual counties to ban commercial cannabis sales. Meanwhile, labor supply may change through positive and negative effects from cannabis use. Using county-level Colorado data from 2011 to 2018 and exploiting variation across counties in the existence and timing of the start of dispensary sales, we test for changes in the unemployment rate, employment, and wages, overall and by industry subsector. Consistent with an increase in labor demand, we estimate that the sale of recreational cannabis through dispensaries is associated with a 0.7 percentage point decrease in the unemployment rate with no effect on the size of the labor force. We also find a 4.5% increase in the number of employees, with the strongest effects found in manufacturing. We find no effect on wages. Given the lack of a reduction in labor force participation or wages, negative effects on labor supply are likely limited, in line with the existing literature. The decrease in unemployment, coupled with an increase in the number of employees, indicates that labor demand effects likely dominate effects on labor supply. Our results suggest that policymakers considering recreational access to cannabis should anticipate a possible increase in employment.

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The effect of alcohol sales restrictions on alcohol poisoning mortality: Evidence from Russia

Cited by 7 publications

References 69 publications

Mortality in Russia Since the Fall of the Soviet Union

Mortality in Russia Since the Fall of the Soviet Union

Hazardous alcohol consumption in slow- and fast-privatized Russian industrial towns

The effects of recreational cannabis access on labor markets: evidence from Colorado

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