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

IF 2 3区医学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Health economics Pub Date : 2024-06-30 DOI:10.1002/hec.4875

Stefan Boes, Steven Stillman

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Abstract

We 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.

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酒后驾车？了解青少年冒险行为的动态。

我们利用新西兰将最低法定饮酒年龄（MLDA）从 20 岁降至 18 岁的机会，研究了青少年冒险行为的动态变化。通过对 15 年间发生的道路交通事故进行统计，并采用事件史方法，我们发现没有证据表明降低饮酒年龄会增加青少年与酒精相关的事故。一项队列分析的补充结果表明，降低饮酒年龄甚至导致了直接受最低酒精摄入量变化影响的青少年风险驾驶的短期下降，但对青少年风险驾驶和饮酒行为没有长期影响。

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Health economics 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

4.80%

发文量

177

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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