Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition

Autor:	David S Jacks, Krishna Pendakur, Hitoshi Shigeoka
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics 0502 economics and business 05 social sciences 050207 economics 050205 econometrics
Zdroj:	The Economic Journal. 131:2955-2983
ISSN:	1468-0297 0013-0133
DOI:	10.1093/ej/ueab011
Popis:	Using new data on county-level variation in alcohol prohibition from 1933 to 1939, we investigate whether the repeal of federal prohibition increased infant mortality, both in counties and states that repealed and in neighbouring counties. We find that repeal is associated with a 4.0% increase in infant mortality rates in counties that chose wet status via local option elections or state-wide legislation and with a 4.7% increase in neighbouring dry counties, suggesting a large role for cross-border policy externalities. These estimates imply that roughly twenty-seven thousand excess infant deaths could be attributed to the repeal of federal prohibition in this period.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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