Alcohol affordability: implications for alcohol price policies. A cross-sectional analysis in middle and older adults from UK Biobank

Moore, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5495-4705, Orpen, Bella, Smith, Jesse, Sarkar, Chinmoy, Chenlu, Li, Shepherd, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6466-2298 and Bauermeister, Sarah 2022. Alcohol affordability: implications for alcohol price policies. A cross-sectional analysis in middle and older adults from UK Biobank. Journal of Public Health 44 (2) , e192-e202. 10.1093/pubmed/fdab095

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Abstract

Background Increasing the price of alcohol reduces alcohol consumption and harm. The role of food complementarity, transaction costs and inflation on alcohol demand are determined and discussed in relation to alcohol price policies. Methods UK Biobank (N = 502,628) was linked by region to retail price quotes for the years 2007 to 2010. The log residual food and alcohol prices, and alcohol availability were regressed onto log daily alcohol consumption. Model standard errors were adjusted for clustering by region. Results Associations with alcohol consumption were found for alcohol price (β = −0.56, 95% CI, −0.92 to −0.20) and availability (β = 0.06, 95% CI, 0.04 to 0.07). Introducing, food price reduced the alcohol price consumption association (β = −0.26, 95% CI, −0.50 to −0.03). Alcohol (B = 0.001, 95% CI, 0.0004 to 0.001) and food (B = 0.001, 95% CI, 0.0005 to 0.0006) price increased with time and were associated (ρ = 0.57, P < 0.001). Conclusion Alcohol and food are complements, and the price elasticity of alcohol reduces when the effect of food price is accounted for. Transaction costs did not affect the alcohol price consumption relationship. Fixed alcohol price policies are susceptible to inflation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Dentistry Crime and Security Research Institute (CSURI)
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	1741-3842
Funders:	MRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 March 2021
Date of Acceptance:	9 March 2021
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2024 02:07
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139782

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