@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp18201,
            	author={Guthridge, Steve and Schurer, Stefanie and Taylor, Paige J.},
            	title={Minimum Unit Pricing, Alcohol Consumption and Infant Health: Evidence from the Alice Springs Liquor Supply Plan},
            	year={2025},
	month={Oct},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={18201},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18201},
	abstract={Restricting purchases or establishing a minimum (floor) price for low-cost, high-strength alcoholic beverages is an increasingly popular policy used to address problem drinking and alcohol-related harm. We study the consumption and short-term health-at-birth impacts of the 2006 Alice Springs Liquor Supply Plan (LSP) which effectively doubled the minimum per-unit price of alcohol by prohibiting sales of large containers of wine. Net alcohol consumption per person dropped by 12%. Both price and consumption remained unaffected in control regions. We estimated a price elasticity of demand for the cheapest drink in the market as low as -0.2. While this change decreased the total volume of pure alcohol consumed, it did not achieve a key policy objective to improve infant health outcomes among babies most at-risk for alcohol-related harm. We discuss mechanisms and potential policy conclusions.},
	keywords={birth outcomes;health behaviours;alcohol regulation;difference-in-difference estimation},
            }