We provide new cross-country evidence on alcohol price and income elasticities based on microdata on individual behaviour. Our approach is original as previous research mainly estimates determinants of consumption with macroeconomic data. We use the latest available wave of the European Social Survey, 2014, merged with the Annual Database of National Beverage Consumption. We estimate a generalised Heckman model on the individual and national determinants of alcohol consumption with standard errors bootstrapped at the country level. We were able to identify direct and indirect effects of price and income, including their specific impacts on drinkers and abstainers.

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喝了几杯——欧洲的酒类价格和收入弹性：微观计量经济学笔记

我们基于个人行为的微观数据提供了关于酒类价格和收入弹性的新的跨国证据。我们的方法是原创的，因为之前的研究主要用宏观经济数据估计消费的决定因素。我们使用 2014 年欧洲社会调查的最新可用数据，并与国家饮料消费年度数据库合并。我们估计了一个关于个人和国家酒精消费决定因素的广义 Heckman 模型，标准误差在国家层面自举。我们能够确定价格和收入的直接和间接影响，包括它们对饮酒者和戒酒者的具体影响。