Alcohol policies and highway vehicle fatalities
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Alcohol policies and highway vehicle fatalities.
This study investigates the impact of beer taxes and a variety of alcohol-control policies on motor vehicle fatality rates. Special attention is paid to omitted variables biases resulting from failing to adequately control for grassroots efforts to reduce drunk driving, the enactment of other laws which simultaneously operate to reduce highway fatalities, and the economic conditions existing at...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health Economics
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0167-6296
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-6296(96)00490-0