Can Alcohol Prohibition Reduce Violence against Women?

Dara Lee Luca, Emily Owens and Gunjan Sharma

American Economic Review, 2015, vol. 105, issue 5, 625-29

Abstract: Violence against women is a critical problem across the world. In this paper, we exploit state and temporal variation in alcohol control in India to examine the impact of prohibition on alcohol consumption and violent crimes against women. We first use detailed household survey data to show that prohibition policies are associated with substantially lower rates of drinking among men and domestic violence. Next, we provide evidence that alcohol prohibition reduces aggregate violence against women in officially reported crime data. The results suggest that policies that restrict access to alcohol may help reduce gender violence.

JEL-codes: I18 J16 K42 O12 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20151120
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (33)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.p20151120 (application/pdf)
https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/ds/10505/P2015_1120_ds.zip (application/zip)
https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/data/10505/P2015_1120_data.zip (application/zip)
Access to full text is restricted to AEA members and institutional subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:105:y:2015:i:5:p:625-29

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/subscriptions

Access Statistics for this article

American Economic Review is currently edited by Esther Duflo

More articles in American Economic Review from American Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michael P. Albert ().