Psychological distress and problem drinking

We examine the influence of harmful alcohol use on mental health using a flexible two-step instrumental variables approach and household survey data from nine countries of the former Soviet Union. Using alcohol advertisements to instrument for alcohol, we show that problem drinking has a large detri...

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Main Authors: Mentzakis, Emmanouil (Author), Roberts, Bayard (Author), Suhrcke, Marc (Author), McKee, Martin (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015.
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