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YOUTH ALCOHOL USE AND PUBLIC POLICY
Author(s) -
LAIXUTHAI ADIT,
CHALOUPKA FRANK J.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1993.tb00402.x
Subject(s) - excise , fell , economics , heavy drinking , demographic economics , alcohol , environmental health , poison control , injury prevention , business , public economics , medicine , geography , macroeconomics , biochemistry , chemistry , cartography
This paper examines the frequencies of youth drinking and heavy drinking in 1982 and 1989 and separately examines the effects of minimum legal drinking ages and beer excise taxes for each year. In both years, drinking is responsive to price changes resulting from higher excise taxes. However, the price sensitivity of youth alcohol use fell after states changed to a uniform minimum legal drinking age of 21 .