Violence-related injury and the Price of Beer in England and Wales

Kent Matthews, Jonathan Shepherd and Vaseekaran Sivarajasingham

No E2006/3, Cardiff Economics Working Papers from Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section

Abstract: This paper examines the influence of the real price of beer on violence-related injuries across the economic regions in England and Wales. The data are monthly frequency of violent-injury collected from a stratified sample of 58 National Health Service Emergency Departments 1995-2000. An econometric model based on economic, socio-demographic and environmental factors was estimated using panel techniques. We show that the rate of violence-related injury is negatively related to the real price beer, as well as economic, sporting and socio-demographic factors. The principal conclusion of the paper is that the regional distribution of the incidence of violent injury is related to the regional distribution of the price of beer. The major policy conclusion is that increased alcohol prices would result in substantially fewer violent injuries and reduced demand on trauma services.

Keywords: Violence; Alcohol; Price of Beer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2006-01
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Published in Applied Economics 38 , 2006, pp. 661-670.

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