Impact of Allowing Sunday Alcohol Sales in Georgia on Employment and Hours

Julie Hotchkiss and Yanling Qi

No 2015-10, FRB Atlanta Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Abstract: This paper uses differential timing across counties of the removal of restrictions on Sunday alcohol sales in the state of Georgia to determine whether the change had an impact on employment and hours in the beer, wine, and liquor retail sales industry. A triple-difference (DDD) analysis finds significant relative increases in average weekly hours in the treated industry. There is no significant relative employment increase. The DDD hours result is stronger when we limit the counties removing restrictions to those that border states with significantly higher alcohol excise taxes.

Keywords: difference-in-difference; triple difference; alcohol sales restrictions; blue laws; border effects; QCEW; ES202 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 L38 L89 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2015-11-01
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