The effect of alcohol prohibition on alcohol consumption: evidence from drunkenness arrests

Dills, Angela K.; Jacobson, Mireille; Miron, Jeffrey A.

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2004.07.017

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“…Many representative studies have focused on alcohol consumption-for example, alcohol consumption and prohibition (Dills and Miron 2004;Dills, Jacobson and Miron 2005), alcohol consumption and the minimum legal drinking age (Carpenter and Dobkin 2009), and alcohol consumption and Sunday blue laws (Lovenheim and Steefel 2011). Further complicating the ability to study expansions in the scope of criminality of this nature are data limitations.…”

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The Effect of Statutory Rape Laws on Teen Birth Rates

Frakes¹,

Harding

2015

Am Law Econ Rev

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The Effect of Statutory Rape Laws on Teen Birth Rates

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Harding

2015

Am Law Econ Rev

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“…Second, it is not clear that outlawing a certain good would be an effective tool to reduce consumption. Dills et al (2005) finds empirical evidence that alcohol prohibition in the US might even have increased alcohol consumption. A possible explanation for such a result is that prohibition might actually decrease prices.…”

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Advertising bans

Motta

2011

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I show that an advertising ban is more likely to increase-rather than decrease-total consumption when advertising does not bring about a large expansion of market demand at given prices and when it increases product differentiation (thus allowing firms to command higher prices). In this case, the main impact of a ban on advertising is to reduce equilibrium prices and thus increase demand. I argue that this is more likely to happen in mature industries where consumer goods are ex-ante (i.e. without advertising) similar and advertising is of the 'price-increasing' type. The ban is the more likely to increase profits of the firms the weaker the ability of advertising to expand total demand and the less advertising serves to induce product differentiation.

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“…4. And the evidence indicates that such arrests are a reasonable proxy for alcohol consumption (Dills et al, 2005). 5.…”

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“…Even allowing for the fact that data on alcohol consumption during prohibition are incomplete 3 (Miron, 2012), the fact is that it did NOT stop people from drinking alcohol after the Mental Health and Substance Use passing of the Volstead Act and the 18th amendment going into effect (federally) until the repeal of the act in 1933. Using data pertaining to arrests for drunkenness as a proxy for alcohol consumption, 4 it can be seen that alcohol consumption continued during prohibition (Dills, Jacobson, & Miron, 2005;Miron & Zweibel, 1995;Nodine, 2006). Dills et al (2005, p. 283) report, that prohibition had a substantial short-term effect but roughly zero longer-term effect on drunkenness arrests.…”

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Grounded in evidence or a puritanical legacy: a critique of twenty-first-century US drug policy

Cutcliffe

Saadeh

2013

Mental Health and Substance Use

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The federal government of the USA asserts that its national drug policy is based on empirical and scientific evidence rather than ideology. However, the recently published 'War on Drugs' (2011) report declared that the global war on drugs has failed, producing devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Accordingly, this paper focuses on a number of key positions that are embedded in the US drug policy and seeks to reconcile these with the empirical evidence that exists; such as it is. In the absence of supporting empirical evidence to underpin a policy goal, one must logically consider that there are alternative, hidden drivers and the authors can detect (at least) three such drivers of US drug policy. The first of these is the influence of religion; US drug policy is influenced by a Puritanical legacy. The second is that of societal views of drugs and drug users per se and how such views invariably associate certain drugs with specific ethnic minority groups. The third is that of maintaining vested (special) interests, for example, the private (for profit) prison system. Current US drug policy is even more puzzling given the growing body of 'global' evidence that viable, efficacious, cheaper, more humane, and ultimately, logical evidence-based policy options exist. As a result, the authors add their 'voices' to those of others who have advocated a genuinely evidence-based drug policy rather than a social policy influenced by theology, xenophobia and the ongoing profits of certain special interest groups.

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The effect of alcohol prohibition on alcohol consumption: evidence from drunkenness arrests

Cited by 42 publications

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The Effect of Statutory Rape Laws on Teen Birth Rates

The Effect of Statutory Rape Laws on Teen Birth Rates

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Grounded in evidence or a puritanical legacy: a critique of twenty-first-century US drug policy

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