TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaestner, Robert
AU  - Yarnoff, Benjamin
TI  - Long-Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities
SN  - 00222186
AV  - HB73 JOU 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Age
KW  - Alcohol drinking
KW  - Alcohols
KW  - Binge drinking
KW  - Death
KW  - Drinking age
KW  - Legal age
KW  - Proportions
KW  - Traffic accidents
KW  - Traffic estimation
N2  - We examine whether adults’ alcohol consumption and traffic fatalities are associated with the legal drinking environment those adults experienced between the ages of 18 and 20. We find that the difference between an environment in which a person was never allowed to drink legally at those ages and one in which a person could always drink legally is associated with a 20-33 percent increase in alcohol consumption and a 10 percent increase in fatal accidents for adult males. There are no statistically significant or practically important associations between the youths’ legal drinking environment and adult females’ alcohol consumption and driving fatalities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1086/658486
ER  -