Can Alcohol Prohibition Reduce Violence Against Women?
利用印度各邦禁酒政策的差异，结合家庭调查和官方犯罪数据，发现禁酒显著降低了男性饮酒率和针对女性的暴力犯罪，对政策制定者有参考价值。
Violence against women is a critical problem across the world. In this paper, we exploit state and temporal variation in alcohol control in India to examine the impact of prohibition on alcohol consumption and violent crimes against women. We first use detailed household survey data to show that prohibition policies are associated with substantially lower rates of drinking among men and domestic violence. Next, we provide evidence that alcohol prohibition reduces aggregate violence against women in officially reported crime data. The results suggest that policies that restrict access to alcohol may help reduce gender violence.