NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Youth Alcohol Use and Public Policy

Adit Laixuthai, Frank J. Chaloupka

NBER Working Paper No. 4278*
Issued in February 1993
NBER Program(s):   HE

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This paper examines the frequency of youth drinking and heavy drinking in 1982 and 1989. The effects of minimum legal drinking ages and beer excise taxes are considered separately for each year. In both years, drinking is found to be responsive to changes in prices resulting from higher excise taxes. However, the price sensitivity of youth alcohol use fell after the change to a uniform legal drinking age of 21.

*Published: Contemporary Policy Issues, Volum 11, Number 5, (October 1994). pp. 69-81

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