A statistical analysis of the effects of a uniform minimum drinking age

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• Creators:
  Hoxie, Paul ; Skinner, David
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Statistical analysis
  • Legal drinking age
  • Fatalities
  • Highway safety
  • Young adults
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-TSC-NHTSA-87-1 ; DOT-HS-807-082
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report; January 1975-December 1985; Reprint 1988
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  This report examines the relationship between minimum drinking age (MDA) and ; highway fatalities during the 1975-1985 period, when 35 states changed their ; MDAs. An econometric model of fatalities involving the 18-20 year-old driver ; normalized by the 18-20 year-old population is used to compare the fatality ; experience of states with a change in MDA to that of states without a change ; in their law. The effect of a national uniform MDA of 21 depends on the status ; of individual state MDAs when the change is implemented; however, it is ; estimated that an 11 percent decrease in highway fatalities involving 18-20 ; year-old drivers can be expected if the MDA is increased from 18 to 21.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/8611/dot_8611_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.86 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:96acaa62b22fbc6299d3d07c7ea210d063d3791bb6a1ff94744d646f957bb928001a9ed2f09072c15cac716b69d5edd32effb524bc9808d308f25a90a9d15bfc