Who drinks how much less with which price policy? A rich feast for policy discussion

Addiction

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 394-395

  Room, Robin ^a,b,c   Livingston, Michael ^a,b  

^a TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcohol problems; Differential effects of policy; Economic modeling; Price elasticity; Validity of drinking surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249113664     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02840.x     Document Type: Note

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