| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w13374 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 13374 |
| The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age | |
| Christopher Carpenter; Carlos Dobkin | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-09-06 |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper estimates the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression discontinuity design. We find that granting legal access to alcohol at age 21 leads to large and immediate increases in several measures of alcohol consumption, including a 21 percent increase in the number of days on which people drink. This increase in alcohol consumption results in a discrete 9 percent increase in the mortality rate at age 21. The overall increase in deaths is due primarily to a 14 percent increase in deaths due to motor vehicle accidents, a 30 percent increase in alcohol overdoses and alcohol-related deaths, and a 15 percent increase in suicides. Combining the reduced-form estimates reveals that a 1 percent increase in the number of days a young adult drinks or drinks heavily results in a .4 percent increase in total mortality. Given that mortality due to external causes peaks at about age 21 and that young adults report very high levels of alcohol consumption, our results suggest that public policy interventions to reduce youth drinking can have substantial public health benefits. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13374 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571046 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christopher Carpenter,Carlos Dobkin. The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age. 2007. |
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| w13374.pdf（813KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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