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- Title
DRINKING AGE LAWS AND HIGHWAY MORTALITY RATES: CAUSE AND EFFECT.
- Authors
Saffer, Henry; Grossman, Michael
- Abstract
This paper presents estimates of the effects of the drinking age and beer taxes on youth motor vehicle mortality. A simultaneous equation model is used and the results show that the drinking age is a function of mortality rates. The results also show that for eighteen- to twenty-year-old drivers an increase in the drinking age to twenty-one, which is approximately 8 percent, would reduce mortality by approximately 18 percent. Also a 100 percent increase in the real beer tax, which is approximately $1.50 per case, would reduce highway mortality by about 27 percent.
- Subjects
DRINKING age; BEER tax; YOUTH; MOTOR vehicles; MORTALITY
- Publication
Economic Inquiry, 1987, Vol 25, Issue 3, p403
- ISSN
0095-2583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1465-7295.1987.tb00749.x