Taxing sin and saving lives: Can alcohol taxation reduce female homicides?
Taxing sin and saving lives: Can alcohol taxation reduce female homicides?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.04.027
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发表时间：
2011-07-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Cook, Philip
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作者：
Durrance, Christine Piette;Golden, Shelley;Cook, Philip
暴力侵害妇女行为每年造成的损失超过58亿美元，对受害者、她们的家庭、治疗她们的医疗保健系统以及依赖她们劳动的雇主产生了重大影响。先前的研究发现，酗酒会导致对男女的暴力行为，严格的酒精控制政策可以减少酒精消费，从而减少某些形式的暴力行为。在本文中，我们估计了一个重要的酒精控制措施，消费税，和最极端的暴力形式，杀人之间的直接关系。我们使用女性凶杀率作为衡量严重暴力的指标，因为多年来一直准确地报告这一指标。我们的研究结果提供的证据表明，增加酒精税减少酒精消费，减少酒精消费可以减少杀害妇女。不幸的是，对这种关系的直接测试并不能确定酒精税是否有效地降低了女性杀人率。我们的结论是，虽然酒精税已被证明可以有效地减少对妇女的其他形式的暴力行为，政策制定者可能需要替代的政策杠杆，以减少对妇女的最严重形式的暴力行为。(C)2011爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
With costs exceeding $5.8 billion per year, violence against women has significant ramifications for victims, their families, the health care systems that treat them, and the employers who depend on their labor. Prior research has found that alcohol abuse contributes to violence against both men and women, and that stringent alcohol control policies can reduce alcohol consumption and in turn some forms of violence. In this paper, we estimate the direct relationship between an important alcohol control measure, excise taxes, and the most extreme form of violence, homicide. We use female homicide rates as our measure of severe violence, as this measure is consistently and accurately reported across multiple years. Our results provide evidence that increased alcohol taxes reduce alcohol consumption and that reductions in alcohol consumption can reduce femicide. Unfortunately, a direct test of the relationship does not have the power to determine whether alcohol taxes effectively reduce female homicide rates. We conclude that while alcohol taxes have been shown to effectively reduce other forms of violence against women, policy makers may need alternative policy levers to reduce the most severe form of violence against women. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.