Health effects of a ban on late-night alcohol sales

Link:
Autor/in:
Erscheinungsjahr:
2023
Medientyp:
Text
Schlagworte:
  • alcohol control policies
  • binge drinking
  • difference-in-differences
  • road casualties
  • sales restrictions
  • synthetic control
Beschreibung:
  • This paper studies the impact of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in Germany. We use three large administrative data sets: (i) German diagnosis related groups-Statistik, (ii) data from a large social health insurance, and (iii) Road Traffic Accident Statistics. Applying difference-in-differences and synthetic-control-group methods, we find that the ban had no effects on alcohol-related road casualties, but significantly reduced alcohol-related hospitalizations (doctor visits) among young people by around 9 (18) percent. The decrease is driven by fewer hospitalizations due to acute alcohol intoxication during the night—when the ban is in place—but not during the day.
Lizenz:
  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Quellsystem:
Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

Interne Metadaten
Quelldatensatz
oai:www.edit.fis.uni-hamburg.de:publications/5b727ebe-5330-4591-94be-aedcdc1b9faf