Does the minimum drinking age affect traffic fatalities?

Peter Asch and David T. Levy

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1987, vol. 6, issue 2, 180-192

Abstract: Since 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 overstated.

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.2307/3324514

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