Alcohol Regulation and Crime

We thank participants at the pre-conference on the Economics of Crime Control at the 2009 NBER Summer Institute, participants at the 2010 "Making Crime Control Pay: Cost-Effective Alternatives to Mass Incarceration" conference at UC Berkeley School of Law, Stefano DellaVigna, Jens Ludwig, Steve Raphael, and especially Phil Cook for numerous useful comments. This review has benefited greatly--and draws heavily--from earlier reviews of alcohol and alcohol control policies, including: Cook and Moore 2000; Chaloupka, Grossman, and Saffer 2002; Room 1983; and others. We gratefully acknowledge grant support from NIH/NIAAA #RO1 AA017302-01. The usual caveats apply. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.