Estimating the causal effect of alcohol consumption on well-being for a cross-section of 9 former Soviet Union countries.
Abstract: While the adverse health and economic consequences attributable to alcohol consumption are widely acknowledged, its impact on psychological wellbeing is less well understood. This is to a large extent due to the challenge of establishing causal effects of alcohol consumption when using sta...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 89; pp. 1 - 8 |
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