Does the minimum drinking age affect traffic fatalities?
作者:
Peter Asch,
David T. Levy,
期刊:
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
(WILEY Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 2
页码: 180-192
ISSN:0276-8739
年代: 1987
DOI:10.2307/3324514
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractSince the mid‐1970s numerous states have raised their minimum legal drinking age in an effort to reduce alcohol‐related traffic accidents. This study examines determinants of a variety of traffic fatality rates at the state level for 1978, with particular attention to drinking age and drinking experience. The legal drinking age has no perceptible influence on fatalities, but inexperience in drinking is an apparent risk factor independent of age. The findings suggest that the effectiveness of higher drinking ages as a safety policy tool probably has been oversta
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