Drink and drive? Understanding the dynamics of youth risk‐taking-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Drink and drive? Understanding the dynamics of youth risk‐taking

Published:2024-06-30 Issue:10 Volume:33 Page:2381-2398
ISSN:1057-9230
Container-title:Health Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:Health Economics

Author:

Boes Stefan¹^ORCID,Stillman Steven²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine and Center for Health, Policy, and Economics University of Lucerne Lucerne Switzerland

2. Faculty of Economics and Management Free University of Bozen‐Bolzano Bolzano Italy

Abstract

AbstractWe exploit a reduction in the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) in New Zealand from 20 to 18 to study the dynamics of youth risk‐taking. Using the universe of road accidents over 15 years and an event history approach, we find no evidence that lowering the drinking age increased alcohol‐related accidents among teens. Complementary results of a cohort analysis suggest that reducing the drinking age even led to a short‐term decline in risky driving among youths directly affected by the MLDA change but had no longer‐run impacts on youth risky driving and drinking behaviors.

Publisher

Wiley

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hec.4875

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