Ben Baumberg Geiger is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy University of Kent.

Ahead of the busy festive period where many of us will be enjoying a few alcoholic beverages, Ben writes about his ESRC and MRC-funded study Can alcohol make you happy? A subjective wellbeing approach, which was published in the journal Social Science & Medicine. 

There has been an increasing interest in wellbeing among alcohol policy researchers. Recent studies have estimated wellbeing-related impacts such as ‘harms to others’, while the world-leading Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model estimates a 50p minimum price would lead to wellbeing benefits worth more than £2 billion over 10 years.
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