Alcohol availability and crime: Lessons from liberalized weekend sales restrictions

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 81, Issue , 2014, Pages 77-84

  Grönqvist, Hans ^a   Niknami, Susan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcohol laws; Illegal behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897451957     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Adda, J., McConnell, B., Rasul, I., 2011. Crime and the Decriminalization of Cannabis: Evidence from a Localized Policing Experiment, Unpublished Manuscript, UCL.
2. Bayer P., Hjalmarsson R., Pozen D. Building criminal capital behind bars: peer effects in juvenile corrections. Quart. J. Econ. 2009, 124(1):105-147.
3. Bertrand M., Duflo E., Mullainathan S. How much should we trust differences-in-differences estimates?. Quart. J. Econ. 2004, 119(1):249-275.
4. Biderman C., DeMello J., Schneider A. Dry laws and homicides: evidence from the Sao Paulo metropolitan area. Econ. J. 2010, 120(543):157-182.
5. Cameron C., Gelbach J., Miller D. Bootstrap-based improvements for inference with clustered errors. Rev. Econ. Stat. 2008, 90(3):414-427.
6. Card D., Dahl G. Family violence and football: the effect of unexpected emotional cues on violent behavior. Quart. J. Econ. 2011, 126(1):103-143.
7. Carpenter C. Heavy alcohol use and the commission of nuisance crime: evidence from underage drunk driving laws. Am. Econ. Rev. Pap. Proc. 2005, 95(2):267-272.
8. Carpenter, C., Dobkin, C., 2010a. Alcohol Regulation and Crime, NBER Working Paper No. 15828.
9. Carpenter, C., Dobkin, C., 2010b. The Drinking Age, Alcohol Consumption, and Crime, Unpublished Manuscript, UCI.
10. Cohen-Zada Danny, Sander William Religious participation versus shopping: what makes people happier?. J. Law Econ. 2011, 54(4):889-906.
11. Cook P., Moore M. Alcohol. Handbook of Health Economics 2000, 1629-1673. Elsevier, North Holland Press. first ed. A.J. Culyer, J.P. Newhouse (Eds.).
12. Donohue J., Levitt S. The impact of legalized abortion on crime. Quart. J. Econ. 2001, 116(2):379-420.
13. Doyle J. Child protection and adult crime: using investigator assignment to estimate causal effects of foster care. J. Political Econ. 2008, 116(4):746-770.
14. Draca M., Machin S., Witt R. Panic on the streets of London: police, crime and the July 2005 terror attacks. Am. Econ. Rev. 2011, 101(5):2157-2181.
15. Duggan M. More guns, more crime. J. Political Econ. 2001, 109(5):1086-1114.
16. Dustmann, C., Piil Damm, A., 2009. The Effect of Growing Up in a High Crime Area on Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from a Random Allocation Experiment, Unpublished Manuscript, UCL.
17. Greenfeld, L., 1998. Alcohol and crime: an analysis of national data on the prevalence of alcohol involvement in crime. Report prepared for the Assistant Attorney General's National Symposium on Alcohol Abuse and Crime. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.
18. Grönqvist, H., 2011. Youth Unemployment and Crime: New Lessons Exploring Longitudinal Register Data, SOFI Working Paper No. 7/2011.
19. Gruber Jonathan., Hungerman Daniel. The church vs. the mall: what happens when religion faces increased secular competition?. Quart. J. Econ. 2008, 123:831-862.
20. Hällsten, M., Sarnecki, J., Szulkin, R., 2011. Crime as the Price of Inequality? The Delinquency Gap between Children of Immigrants and Children of Native Swedes, SULCIS Working Paper No. 2011:1.
21. Harrendorf S., Heiskanen M., Malby S. International Statistics on Crime and Justice 2010, European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, HEUNI Publication Series No. 64.
22. Heaton P. Sunday liquor laws and crime. J. Public Econ. 2012, 96(1-2):42-52.
23. Hjalmarsson R., Lindquist M. The origins of intergenerational associations in crime: lessons from Swedish adoption data. Labour Econ. 2013, 20(1):68-81.
24. Homel R., Tomsen S., Thommeny J. Public drinking and violence: not just an alcohol problem. J. Drug Issues 1992, 22(3):679-697.
25. Hough M., Hunter G. The 2003 licensing act's impact on crime and disorder: an evaluation. Criminol. Crim. Just. 2008, 8(3):239-260.
26. Humphreys D., Eisner M. Evaluating a natural experiment in alcohol policy: The Licensing Act (2003) and the requirement for attention to implementation. Criminol. Public Policy 2010, 9(1):41-67.
27. Hungerman, Daniel, 2011. Do religious proscriptions matter? Evidence from a theory-based test, NBER Working Paper No. 17375.
28. Jacob B., Lefgren L. Are idle hands the devil's workshop? Incapacitation, concentration and juvenile crime. Am. Econ. Rev. 2003, 93(5):1560-1577.
29. Kling J., Ludwig J., Katz L. Neighborhood effects on crime for female and male youth: evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment. Quart. J. Econ. 2005, 120(1):87-130.
30. Lee, D., McCrary, J., 2009. The Deterrence Effect of Prison: Dynamic Theory and Evidence, Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section Working Paper No. #550.
31. Ligon J., Thyer B. The effects of a sunday liquor sales ban on DUI arrests. J. Alcohol Drug Educ. 1993, 38(2):33-40.
32. Lochner L., Moretti E. The effect of education on crime: evidence from prison inmates, arrests, and self-reports. Am. Econ. Rev. 2004, 94(1):155-189.
33. McClelland D., Davis W., Kalin R., Wanner E. The Drinking Man: Alcohol and Human Motivation 1972, The Free Press, Collier-Macmillan, New York.
34. Meghir, C., Palme, M., Schnabel, M., 2011. The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective, IZA Discussion Paper No. 6142.
35. Nilsson, P., 2008. Does a Pint a Day Affect Your Child's Pay? Unintended and Permanent Consequences of a Temporary Alcohol Policy Experiment, IFAU Working Paper No. 2008:04.
36. Norström T. Effects on criminal violence of different beverage types and private and public drinking. Addiction 1998, 93(5):689-699.
37. Norström T., Skog O. Saturday opening of alcohol retail shops in Sweden: an impact analysis. J. Stud. Alcohol 2003, 64(3):393-401.
38. Norström T., Skog O. Saturday opening of alcohol retail shops in Sweden: an experiment in two phases. Addiction 2005, 100(6):767-776.
39. Olson O., Wikström P. Effects of the experimental Saturday closing of liquor retail stores in Sweden. Contemporary Drug Probl. 1982, 11(1):325-335.
40. Rush B., Gliksman L., Brooks R. Alcohol availability, alcohol consumption and alcohol related damage: the distribution of consumption model. J. Stud. Alcohol 1986, 47(1):1-10.
41. Saffer Henry Substance abuse control and crime: evidence from the national household survey of drug abuse. Economics of Substance Abuse 2001, Edward Elgar Limited, United Kingdom. M. Grossman, C.-R. Hsieh (Eds.).
42. Weiner, D., Lutz, B., Ludwig, J., 2009. The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime, NBER Working Paper No. 15380.