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Economic and Social Implications of Regulating Alcohol Availability in Grocery Stores

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  • Bradley J. Rickard
  • Marco Costanigro
  • Teevrat Garg

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The availability of alcoholic beverages in grocery stores varies across the United States due to state-level regulations. Recently there have been a number of controversial legislative proposals to expand the distribution of certain alcoholic beverages, most notably wine. Our econometric results show that, holding constant the total quantity of alcohol consumed, a higher share of wine correlates with lower traffic fatality rates, while the opposite is true for beer. These findings suggest that arguments against the wider distribution of wine as an approach to reduce social problems may not be fully justified.

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  • Bradley J. Rickard & Marco Costanigro & Teevrat Garg, 2013. "Economic and Social Implications of Regulating Alcohol Availability in Grocery Stores," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 35(4), pages 613-633.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:apecpp:v:35:y:2013:i:4:p:613-633.
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    1. Byrne, Paul & Nizovtsev, Dmitri, 2017. "Exploring the effects of state differences in alcohol retail restrictions," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 15-24.
    2. Rickard, Bradley J. & Gergaud, Olivier & Ho, Shuay-Tsyr & Hu, Wenjing, 2014. "Trade Liberalization In The Presence Of Domestic Regulations: Impacts Of The Proposed Eu-U.S. Free Trade Agreement On Wine Markets," Working Papers 190670, American Association of Wine Economists.
    3. Ho, Shuay-Tsyr & Rickard, Bradley J., 2021. "Regulation and purchase diversity: Empirical evidence from the U.S. alcohol market," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    4. Trey Malone & Jayson L. Lusk, 2016. "Brewing up entrepreneurship: government intervention in beer," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 5(3), pages 325-342, November.
    5. Ho, Shuay-Tsyr & Qu, Mingyang & Rickard, Bradley & Costanigro, Marco & McLaughlin, Edward, 2016. "Retail Alcohol Availability and Product Diversity," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 235913, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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