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Outline
Data
Empirical strategy
Empirical evidence
Previous works:
have made use of changes in minimum legal drinking ages (MLDA, in
the 1970s and 1980s);
higher drinking age reduces alcohol consumption by young adults and
fatalities from motor vehicle accidents (Alexander C. Wagenaar and
Traci L.Toomey 2002).
Data
Empirical Strategy
Empirical strategy
The reduced-form approach of the following equation will let us estimate the
impact of the MLDA laws on alcohol consumption and mortality.
ya = E[yai |agei = a] = Xa y + g y (a) + Da y + vay
(1)
(3)