Southern Economic Journal, April 1st, 1996
Drunk driving can be minimized by implementing two policies. These are deterrence policies which includes severe punishments for the offender and policies which reduce alcohol consumption by increasing its price through taxation. However, such policies fail to consider the appropriate determinants of the policies because they come from elected officials or reached through direct voting. Data on county-level prohibition indicate that endogenous consumption constraints are more effective than exogenous policy-related prohibitions. I. Introduction Public concern about alcohol abuse has stimulat...
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