Repealing "blue laws" and allowing Sunday alcohol sales has much less of a negative effect than doomsayers predicted.
That's according to a new research paper by Cristina Connolly and Alyssa McDonnell of the University of Connecticut, Marcello Graziano of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Sandro Steinbach of North Dakota State University. The study, published in the Journal of Wine Economics by Cambridge University Press, "examine[d] the impact of repealing Sunday blue laws on alcohol sales and retail competition, focusing on Connecticut's 2012 policy change allowing Sunday beer sales in grocery stores."
