Replication data for: The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

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Project Citation:

Bhattacharya, Jay, Gathmann, Christina, and Miller, Grant. Replication data for: The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia’s Mortality Crisis. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113851V1

Project Description

Summary: Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40 percent surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper investigates an alternative explanation: the demise of the 1985-1988 Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign. Using archival sources to build a new oblast-year dataset spanning 1978-2000, we find a variety of evidence suggesting that the campaign's end explains a large share of the mortality crisis, implying that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as lethal as commonly suggested. (JEL D72, I12, I18, P26, P36)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
      I12 Health Behavior
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      P26 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Political Economy; Property Rights
      P36 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty

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