Studies on Alcohol Consumption during Recessions
Looking for Academic or Industrial Studies of trends in alcohol consumption during a bad economy, i.e recessions, downturns, economical turmoil, etc. Preference is for international data, but on't mind if it is for a single market / country / product.
I'll likelinks to studies or the data itself. I don't mind if it's a pay for article or studey, as long as a good summary or extract is availabe to see the relevence of the data.
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The best bet I found for looking at cycles of alcohol consumption and economic fluctuations was in the Journal of Health Economics, 1999. It critiques and refines a 1995 study: Rhum [Ruhm, C.J., 1995. Economic conditions and alcohol problems. Journal of Health Economics 14, 583–603].
One article explores the relationship between economic conditions and alcohol consumption (5) from 1975-1988.
There is an academic article from Finland discussing social class during economic fluctuations that addresses increases in alcohol related deaths (2) that may be of some help. Another article from Finland discusses "associations between suicide mortality, unemployment, divorce rate and mean alcohol consumption during an economic cycle". Both articles cover the 1985-1995 time period. (6
Another article from Addiction may offer some competing explanations or confirm the relationship - hard to tell from the abstract (4)
1. http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2002/alcohol-sales-cli...
2. http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/4/274
3. http://sjp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/2/85
4. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119484338/abstract?CRETRY=1&...
5. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8K-3Y5FDG4-...
6. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8K-3X9JC29-...
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Some of the articles this turns up are:
"A Note on Economic Conditions and Alcohol Problems":
http://tinyurl.com/bmx3n9
And these more studies in particular countries:
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/79/10/1366
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/4/623
http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/4/274
http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/8/1/21
http://psychsoc.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/1/S3
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http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/4/623
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Reply Looks good, and Almost the most helpfull.
Unfortunately the last 3 links 4,5,6 are going to page not found so I can't look at the articles. If you could fix that, I might help.