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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

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Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler

In: Journal of Public Economics 123 (2015), S. 55-77

Abstract

Excessive 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 10 pm and 5 am at off-premise outlets (e.g., gas stations, kiosks, supermarkets). We use rich monthly administrative data from a 70% 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 7%. There is also evidence of a decrease in the number of hospitalizations due to violent assault as a result of the ban.



JEL-Classification: I12;I18;D04
Keywords: Binge drinking, Drinking hours, Alcohol control policies, Difference-in-differences, Hospital diagnosis statistics, Alcohol
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.12.010

Frei zugängliche Version: (econstor)
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/203124

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