Youth Alcohol Use and Public Policy

Adit Laixuthai and Frank Chaloupka

No 4278, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines the frequency of youth drinking and heavy drinking in 1982 and 1989. The effects of minimum legal drinking ages and beer excise taxes are considered separately for each year. In both years, drinking is found to be responsive to changes in prices resulting from higher excise taxes. However, the price sensitivity of youth alcohol use fell after the change to a uniform legal drinking age of 21.

JEL-codes: I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993-02
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Published as Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 11, No. 4, (October 1993), pp. 70-81

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