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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19857
来源ID	Working Paper 19857
	Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales
	Jason M. Lindo; Peter Siminski; Oleg Yerokhin
发表日期	2014-01-23
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	A large literature has documented significant public health benefits associated with the minimum legal drinking age in the United States, particularly because of the resulting effects on motor vehicle accidents. These benefits form the primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access to alcohol. It is important to keep in mind, though, that policymakers have a wide variety of alcohol-control options available to them, and understanding how these policies may complement or substitute for one another can improve policy making moving forward. Towards this end, we propose that investigating the causal effects of the minimum legal drinking age in New South Wales, Australia provides a particularly informative case study, because Australian states are among the world leaders in their efforts against drunk driving. Using an age-based regression-discontinuity design applied to restricted-use data from several sources, we find no evidence that legal access to alcohol has effects on motor vehicle accidents of any type in New South Wales, despite having large effects on drinking and on hospitalizations due to alcohol abuse.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Other ; Law and Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19857
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577530
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jason M. Lindo,Peter Siminski,Oleg Yerokhin. Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales. 2014.