*Alcohol consumption imposes significant economic and social costs, yet the effectiveness of state intervention remains theoretically ambiguous. This paper examines the impact of the staggered introduction of a state monopoly over spirits in Tsarist Russia (1895–1914) on public health, crime, and state revenues. Given Russia's historically high alcohol-related mortality and dependence on alcohol taxation, the monopoly's effects on drinking behavior, mortality, and social outcomes are unclear. Using a difference-in-differences approach with differential timing, we exploit regional variation in the monopoly’s rollout to assess its consequences.

**This paper studies how the intergenerational transmission of political preferences shapes citizens’ political involvement. I develop a two-period model in which parents choose a costly level of transmission effort, and children decide their level of political involvement. Higher transmission effort increases children’s incentives to choose a high level of involvement. Each child is then randomly paired with another child and incurs a cost when their political preferences differ, with this cost being larger when both are highly involved. The model shows how parental influence links the evolution of political preferences with political involvement.