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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Alcohol Consumption:
Evidence from Drunkenness Arrests
Economics Letters, Volume 86, Issue 2, February 2005, Pages 279-284





We examine the relationship between Prohibition and alcohol consumption using city level drunkenness arrests. We find that Prohibition had a substantial short-term but little long-term impact. The implied pattern of alcohol consumption is similar to that suggested by cirrhosis.

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