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  • Titel: Blind Tigers and Red-Tape Cocktails : Liquor Control and Homicide in Late-Nineteenth-Century South Carolina
  • Beteiligte: Bodenhorn, Howard [VerfasserIn]
  • Körperschaft: National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Erschienen: Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2016
  • Erschienen in: NBER working paper series ; no. w22980
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.3386/w22980
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  • Beschreibung: In 1893 South Carolina prohibited the private manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol and established a state monopoly in wholesale and retail alcohol distribution. The combination of a market decline in the availability of alcohol, reduced variety, and monopoly pricing at state-operated outlets encouraged black markets in alcohol. Because black market participants tend to resort to extra-legal mechanisms for dispute resolution, including violence, one result of South Carolina's alcohol restriction was an increase in homicide. A continuous-treatment difference-in-difference approach reveals that homicide rates increased by about 30 to 60 percent in counties that more vigorously enforced the law
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