TY  - JOUR
AU  - Miron,Jeffrey A.
AU  - Zwiebel,Jeffrey
TI  - Alcohol Consumption During Prohibition
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3675
PY  - 1991
Y2  - July 1991
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3675
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3675.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jeffrey A. Miron
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 781/856-0086
Fax: 617/495-8570
E-Mail: miron@fas.harvard.edu

Jeffrey Zwiebel
Stanford Business School
518 Memorial Way
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305-5015
E-Mail: zwiebel_jeffrey@gsb.stanford.edu
AB  - We estimate the consumption of alcohol during Prohibition using mortality, mental health and crime statistics. We find that alcohol consumption fell sharply at the beginning of Prohibition, to approximately 30 percent of its pre-Prohibition level. During the next several years, however, alcohol consumption increased sharply, to about 60-70 percent of its pre-prohibition level. The level of consumption was virtually the same immediately after Prohibition as during the latter part of Prohibition, although consumption increased to approximately its pre-Prohibition level during the subsequent decade.
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