Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/278985 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16287
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Despite a recent and dramatic re-evaluation of the health consequences of alcohol consumption, very little is known about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as later-life mortality. Here, we investigate how state by year variation in alcohol control arising from the repeal of federal prohibition affects mortality for cohorts born in the 1930s. We find that individuals born in wet states experienced higher later-life mortality than individuals born in dry states, translating into a 3.3% increase in mortality rates between 1990 and 2004 for affected cohorts.
Subjects: 
alcohol
federal prohibition
in utero exposure
later-life mortality
JEL: 
H73
I18
J18
N32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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