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The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the effect of alcohol advertising on motor vehicle fatalities. The … markets in the United States and includes 1200 observations. Since motor vehicle fatalities and alcohol advertising are … also estimated to predict the effect of changes in the price of advertising. The regression results show that alcohol …
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We examine whether adult alcohol consumption and traffic fatalities are associated with the legal drinking environment … in alcohol consumption and a ten percent increase in fatal accidents for adult males. There were no statistically … significant or practically important associations between the legal drinking environment when young and adult female alcohol …
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Each year, approximately 10,000 individuals die in alcohol-impaired traffic crashes in the United States, while … passage of parity laws reduces fatal alcohol poisonings and psychoactive drug overdoses. These findings suggest that …
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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 …
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the fraction of drivers of each type on the road. Our estimates suggest that drivers with alcohol in their blood are at … factors is far less than that of alcohol …
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The purpose of this study is to estimate the effects of drunk driving deterrents and other alcohol related policies on ….S. from 1982 through 1988. Total and alterative alcohol involved motor vehicle fatality rates, for the general population and …
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Based on a time series of state cross sections for the period from 1975 through 1981, we find that motor vehicle accident mortality rates of youths ages 15 through 17, 18 through 20, and 21 through 24 are negatively related to the real beer excise tax. We also find that the death rate of 18...
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This study investigates the impact of beer taxes and a variety of alcohol-control policies on motor vehicle fatality …-driving but point to a potentially significant role for higher alcohol taxes …
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transportation provision, the risky decision to consume alcohol, and the criminal decision to engage in alcohol-impaired driving …. Using a triple differences strategy, we provide evidence that overall there was little effect on DUI arrests, alcohol … related fatal traffic and alcohol related arrests. However, we find that these overall effects mask considerable heterogeneity …
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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 … alcohol has effects on motor vehicle accidents of any type in New South Wales, despite having large effects on drinking and on …
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