What U.S. Data Should be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?

Christopher J. Ruhm, Alison Snow Jones, William C. Kerr, Thomas K. Greenfield, Joseph V. Terza, Ravi S. Pandian, Kerry Anne McGeary

NBER Working Paper No. 17578
Issued in November 2011

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Support for this research by a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01AA017890) is gratefully acknowledged. We wish to thank Deidre Patterson, Keshia Maughn, Ian Reid, and Daniela Zapata for outstanding assistance with this research. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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