@article{ref1,
title="Drinking age laws and highway mortality rates: cause and effect",
journal="Economic inquiry",
year="1987",
author="Saffer, Henry and Grossman, Michelle G.",
volume="25",
number="3",
pages="403-417",
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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0095-2583",
doi="10.1111/j.1465-7295.1987.tb00749.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.1987.tb00749.x"
}