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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2011 May 26;73(1):169–176. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.04.027

Table 3.

Alcohol Consumption and Female Homicide

Specification 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Log Female Homicide Rate (Age 15−50)
Log Total Consumption per capita 1.3638**
(0.3816)
1.3282***
(0.3806)

Log Beer Consumption per capita 1.1378***
(0.3770)
1.0613***
(0.3538)
Log Wine Consumption per capita 0.4352**
(0.1687)
0.3744**
(0.1456)
Log Liquor Consumption per capita 0.6411**
(0.2562)
0.6419**
(0.2506)

Gun Prevalence −0.0027
(0.0047)
−0.0035
(0.0053)
−0.0036
(0.0053)
−0.0035
(0.0048)
Income Per Capita (real) −0.0030
(0.0226)
0.0054
(0.0274)
−0.0192
(0.0232)
−0.0193
(0.0214)
Population Density 0.0137
(0.0213)
−0.0087
(0.0285)
0.0014
(0.0213)
0.0130
(0.0193)
Unemployment Rate 0.0129
(0.0132)
0.0191
(0.0136)
0.0135
(0.0126)
0.0136
(0.0131)
% African American 0.0446**
(0.0199)
0.0440*
(0.0242)
0.0508**
(0.0235)
0.0366**
(0.0174)
R-Squared 0.86 0.86 0.85 0.86 0.85 0.86 0.86 0.86
No. of Observations 699 699 699 699 699 699 699 699
State & Year FE X X X X X X X X

Note: The alcohol tax index is calculated as cents per ounce of ethanol in 1982-1984 dollars. Standard errors are clustered at the state-level and observations are weighted by state population.

*

Significant at the 0.10 level,

**

Significant at the 0.05 level,

***

Significant at the 0.01 level