Is changing the minimum legal drinking age an effective policy tool?

dc.contributor.authorBrachowicz Quintanilla, Nicolai
dc.contributor.authorVall Castelló, Judit
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-16T16:49:44Z
dc.date.available2020-12-31T06:10:19Z
dc.date.issued2019-12
dc.date.updated2020-04-16T16:49:44Z
dc.description.abstractIn year 1991, regional governments in Spain started a period of implementation of a law that rose the minimum legal drinking age from 16 to 18 years old. To evaluate the effects of this change on the consumption of legal drugs and its related morbidity outcomes, we construct a regional panel dataset on alcohol consumption and hospital entry registers and compare variation in several measures of prevalence between the treatment group (16-18 years old) and the control group (20-22 years old). Our findings show important differences by gender. (...)
dc.format.extent8 p.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.idgrec696527
dc.identifier.issn1057-9230
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/155558
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons
dc.relation.isformatofVersió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3955
dc.relation.ispartofHealth Economics, 2019, vol. 28, num. 12, p. 1483-1490
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3955
dc.rights(c) John Wiley & Sons, 2019
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceArticles publicats en revistes (Economia)
dc.subject.classificationConsum d'alcohol
dc.subject.classificationEconomia de la salut
dc.subject.classificationAdolescents
dc.subject.otherDrinking of alcoholic beverages
dc.subject.otherMedical economics
dc.subject.otherTeenagers
dc.titleIs changing the minimum legal drinking age an effective policy tool?
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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