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  • Yang Meng
  • Alan Brennan
  • Robin Purshouse
  • Daniel Hill-McManus
    University of Sheffield
  • Colin Angus
  • John Holmes
  • Petra Sylvia Meier
The estimation of price elasticities of alcohol demand is valuable for the appraisal of price-based policy interventions such as minimum unit pricing and taxation. This study applies a pseudo-panel approach to the cross-sectional Living Cost and Food Survey 2001/2-2009 to estimate the own- and cross-price elasticities of off- and on-trade beer, cider, wine, spirits and ready-to-drinks in the UK. A pseudo-panel with 72 subgroups defined by birth year, gender and socioeconomic status is constructed. Estimated own-price elasticities from the base case fixed effect models are all negative and mostly statically significant (p

Keywords

  • Alcohol demand, Cross price elasticities, Elasticities, Pseudo-panel
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)96-103
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Health Economics
Volume34
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2014
Externally publishedYes
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