The effects of price on the consequences of alcohol use and abuse
The effects of price on the consequences of alcohol use and abuse
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DOI：
10.1007/0-306-47148-5_15
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发表时间：
1998-01-01
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通讯作者：
Saffer, H
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作者：
Chaloupka, FJ;Grossman, M;Saffer, H
经济学家研究了酒精价格对与酒精消费相关的各种结果的影响，包括非致命和致命的机动车事故、其他事故、肝硬化以及其他与酒精相关的死亡率、犯罪和教育程度。在本研究的背景下，价格不仅包括酒精饮料的货币价格，还包括各种各样的其他“成本”，包括获得酒精饮料所花费的时间以及与饮酒和相关行为相关的法律的成本。这项研究清楚地表明，酒精饮料的货币价格的增加，这可以通过增加酒精税来实现，可以大大减少与酒精使用和滥用有关的许多问题。此外，提高饮酒的其他“成本”的控制政策，包括减少酒精饮料的供应，提高法律的饮酒年龄等，也有效地减少了酒精使用和滥用的后果。
Economists have examined the impact of alcohol prices on various outcomes related to alcohol consumption, including nonfatal and fatal motor vehicle accidents, other accidents, liver cirrhosis, and other alcohol-related mortality, crime, and education attainment. Price, in the context of this research, includes not only the monetary price of alcoholic beverages, but also a wide variety of other “costs” of drinking and heavy drinking, including the time spent obtaining alcoholic beverages and the legal costs associated with drinking and related behavior. This research clearly demonstrates that increases in the monetary prices of alcoholic beverages, which could be achieved by increasing taxes on alcohol, can significantly reduce many of the problems associated with alcohol use and abuse. In addition, control policies that raise other “costs” of drinking, including reduced availability of alcoholic beverages, higher legal drinking ages, and others, are also effective in reducing t he consequences of alcohol use and abuse.