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None for the Road? Stricter Drink Driving Laws and Road Accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2021
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599246
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480905
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None for the Road? Stricter Drink Driving Laws and Road Accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2021
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221174
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Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities: The Case of Fatal Road Crashes
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2022
In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic … quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not find that the policy had an effect on road crash deaths and drunk driving … other predictors of alcohol consumption or cross-border effects. A brief discussion of the policy implications of our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266710
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Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities : The Case of Fatal Road Crashes
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2022
In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic … quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not find that the policy had an effect on road crash deaths and drunk driving … other predictors of alcohol consumption or cross-border effects. A brief discussion of the policy implications of our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083481