TY  - JOUR
AU  - Laixuthai,Adit
AU  - Chaloupka,Frank J.
TI  - Youth Alcohol Use and Public Policy
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4278
PY  - 1993
Y2  - February 1993
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4278
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4278.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Frank J. Chaloupka, IV
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Economics (m/c 144)
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
601 S. Morgan Street, Room 713
Chicago, IL  60607-7121
Tel: 312/413-2287
Fax: 312/996-3344;630/801-8870
E-Mail: fjc@uic.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -