What is the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing of alcohol?

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What is the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing of alcohol?
2019-01-29

In May 2018, the Scottish Government set a minimum price of 50p per unit of alcohol. In a forthcoming paper in the Nordic Journal of Health Economics, we use data on household’s weekly off-sales alcohol purchases to assess who the Minimum Unit Pricing policy is likely to affect most. The video highlights the key findings...


More information on the methods used and results obtained can be found at:


Ejebu, O., McKenzie, L. and Ludbrook, A. (2018) 'Household purchasing of cheap alcohol: who would be most affected by minimum unit pricing', Nordic Journal of Health Economics [Epub ahead of print]. [Open access]

Many thanks to Dr Ourega-Zoé Ejebu for her work developing this blog post.

Dr Ourega-Zoé Ejebu

 

 

HERU is supported by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates (SGHSC). The views expressed here are those of the Unit and not necessarily those of the CSO.

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