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Did Alcohol Policy Really Cause the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis? Revisiting the Rebound and Affordability Hypotheses

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dc.contributor.authorAzarova, Aytalina
dc.contributor.authorScheiring, Gabor
dc.contributor.authorAsh, Michael
dc.contributor.authorKing, Lawrence
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Cambridge
dc.contributor.departmentBocconi University
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date2023-09-24T07:44:56.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T20:01:02Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T20:01:02Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-01
dc.description.abstractThis article reexamines the argument that alcohol policies were the major factor behind the mortality crisis in postsocialist Russia. We show that the correlation between the Gorbachev anti-alcohol campaign (rebound hypothesis), alcohol prices in the 1990s (affordability hypothesis), and mortality reported in previous analyses is not robust to splitting oblasts into Far- East and the rest of Russia. Our analysis conducted on a sample of 534 towns in the European part of Russia also finds no robust evidence supporting the two hypotheses. In contrast, findings linking privatization to mortality are robust to controlling for the anti-alcohol campaign and the affordability of alcohol.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/27135633
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/40173
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1245&context=peri_workingpapers&unstamped=1
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.source.issue540
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectAlcohol
dc.subjectAlcohol policy
dc.subjectRussia
dc.subjectMortality
dc.subjectSocial Determinants
dc.subjectTransition
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.titleDid Alcohol Policy Really Cause the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis? Revisiting the Rebound and Affordability Hypotheses
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digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:aa872@medschl.cam.ac.uk|institution:University of Cambridge|Azarova, Aytalina
digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:gabor@gaborscheiring.com|institution:Bocconi University|Scheiring, Gabor
digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:mash@econs.umass.edu|institution:University of Massachusetts Amherst|Ash, Michael
digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:lpking@econs.umass.edu|institution:University of Massachusetts Amherst|King, Lawrence
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