{"id":13179,"date":"2015-10-20T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13179"},"modified":"2015-10-20T08:11:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T12:11:31","slug":"the-economics-of-hangovers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-hangovers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Hangovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/102015_1207_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gillian B. White reported on a study that looked at the economic impact of hangovers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The study examined the cost of lost productivity, criminal justice fees, and medical bills as a result of people regretting the night before.<\/li>\n<li>The greatest cost comes from people who have to miss work due to hangovers, or who show up but are ineffective. This is estimated to cost the United States $90 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Car accidents as a result of hangovers cost $13 billion and arrests and court fees cost $15 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Overall hangovers cost the US economy $250 billion. About $100 billion of that is borne by taxpayers in the form of medical care and government employee time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fairness the study doesn&#8217;t seem to have compared the stats above with the value that people derive from being able to drink enough to trigger a hangover. You can read the study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/10\/the-cost-of-hangovers\/411052\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/10\/the-cost-of-hangovers\/411052\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillian B. White reported on a study that looked at the economic impact of hangovers: The study examined the cost of lost productivity, criminal justice fees, and medical bills as a result of people regretting the night before. The greatest cost comes from people who have to miss work due to hangovers, or who show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/102015_1207_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13181,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions\/13181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}