Citation

Saffer H, Grossman MG. Econ. Inq. 1987; 25(3): 403-417.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1465-7295.1987.tb00749.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper presents estimates of the effects of the drinking age and beer taxes on youth motor vehicle mortality. A simultaneous equation model is used and the results show that the drinking age is a function of mortality rates. The results also show that for eighteen- to twenty-year-old drivers an increase in the drinking age to twenty-one, which is approximately 8 percent, would reduce mortality by approximately 18 percent. Also a 100 percent increase in the real beer tax, which is approximately $1.50 per case, would reduce highway mortality by about 27 percent.

Language: en