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Direct linkCarpenter, Christopher – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
This paper uses the widespread variation across states in the timing of adoption of tougher drunk driving laws that set very low legal blood alcohol limits for drivers under age 21--"zero tolerance" (ZT) laws--to provide new evidence on the causal effect of alcohol use on youth suicide. ZT laws reduced heavy episodic drinking by underage men, with…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, Suicide, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse
