“…Blue laws in the United States include limits on access to alcohol and often reflect historical moral codes (Beliveau and Rouse, 2012;Teupe, 2019). Initially inspired by religious beliefs, these laws are believed to affect retail activities in regulated sectors (McNiel and Yu, 1989), and the loosening of these laws throughout the 1980s and 1990s by state and local governments potentially contributed to behavioral changes (Wyper et al, 2023). While research on alcohol accessibility suggests consumers may drink more alcohol when it can be sold in grocery stores (e.g., Adrian, Ferguson, and Her, 1996;Rickard, 2012), there is less clarity on the impact of repealing blue laws limiting alcohol sales on Sundays (Sunday blue laws) (Popova et al, 2009;Meany et al, 2018), although some studies suggest repealing these laws may either reduce (Green, Heywood, and Navarro, 2014) or have no effect (Lovenheim and Steefel, 2011) on linked negative behaviors such as fatal vehicle accidents.…”