The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia’s Mortality Crisis

Jay Bhattacharya; Christina Gathmann; Grant Miller (2013) · American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-289", tranche="tranche150")

Jay Bhattacharya; Christina Gathmann; Grant Miller (2013). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Table 3.

Template assessment

The source interacts campaign and post-campaign periods with pre-campaign alcohol consumption. This is a continuous-dose intervention with a later reversal, not a binary absorbing-policy estimand.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.