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100	1		_aLindo, Jason M. _933192
245	1	0	_aBreaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: _bEvidence from New South Wales / _cJason M. Lindo, Peter Siminski, Oleg Yerokhin.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w19857
500			_aJanuary 2014.
520	3		_aA large literature has documented significant public health benefits associated with the minimum legal drinking age in the United States, particularly because of the resulting effects on motor vehicle accidents. These benefits form the 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 or substitute for one another can improve policy making moving forward. Towards this end, we propose that investigating the causal effects of the minimum legal drinking age in New South Wales, Australia provides a particularly informative case study, because Australian states are among the world leaders in their efforts against drunk driving. Using an age-based regression-discontinuity design applied to restricted-use data from several sources, we find no evidence that legal access to alcohol has effects on motor vehicle accidents of any type in New South Wales, despite having large effects on drinking and on hospitalizations due to alcohol abuse.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aI18 - Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aK32 - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aSiminski, Peter.
700	1		_aYerokhin, Oleg.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w19857.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w19857
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w19857
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