The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Tập 5 Số 2 - Trang 232-260 - 2013
Jay Bhattacharya1, Christina Gathmann2, Grant Miller3
1Stanford Medical School, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305 and National Bureau of Economic Research.
2University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Strasse 20, Heidelberg, Germany, 69115, and CESifo and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
3Stanford Medical School, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305 and and National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40 percent surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper investigates an alternative explanation: the demise of the 1985–1988 Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign. Using archival sources to build a new oblast-year dataset spanning 1978–2000, we find a variety of evidence suggesting that the campaign's end explains a large share of the mortality crisis, implying that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as lethal as commonly suggested. (JEL D72, I12, I18, P26, P36)

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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Tập 5 Số 2

232-260

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