Compliance With Legal Age Restrictions on Adolescent Alcohol Sales for Alcohol Home Delivery Services (AHDS)

Why should i comply? Sellers' accounts for (non-)compliance with legal age limits for alcohol sales

BACKGROUND Availability is an important predictor of early and excessive alcohol consumption by adolescents. Many countries have implemented age limits to prevent underage purchases of alcohol. However, shop-floor compliance with these age limits appears to be problematic. This study addresses the issue of non-compliance with age limits. Which measures do vendors take to avoid underage alcohol ...

Alcohol Availability and Alcohol Consumption: New Evidence from Sunday Sales Restrictions in Canada

Many US states and Canadian provinces have recently lifted bans on off-premise retail liquor sales on Sundays, yet there is no evidence on how such provisions affect drinking. We investigate this issue using unique information on day-specific alcohol consumption from Canada’s National Population Health Surveys (1994-1999) and variation across provinces in the presence of a Sunday sales restrict...

Privatization of Alcohol Sales

In November 2010, Washington State will be voting on two initiatives, I-1100 and I-1105, that aim to privatize alcohol sales, ending the state’s monopoly on spirits. Supporters of the initiatives claim that privatization has the potential to save the state hundreds of thousands of dollars; opponents counter that it could end up costing the state more in the long-run, as problem drinking increas...

Alcohol sales to underage buyers in the Netherlands in 2011 and 2013.

PURPOSE Measuring vendors' compliance and possible change in compliance with the legal age limits on alcohol sales in 2011 and 2013. METHODS In 2011 and 2013, representative mystery shopping studies were conducted. In total, 2,737 underage mystery shopping alcohol purchase attempts were conducted both in off-premise (supermarkets, liquor stores, and take away restaurants) and on-premise (bars...

Alcohol Sales to Underage Adolescents