Can technology help to reduce underage drinking? Evidence from the false ID laws with scanner provision

Yörük, Barış K.

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2014.03.004

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“…It seems clear that if retailers have the use of ID scanners to spot fake IDs, have the right to seize suspicious IDs, and can sue a patron for using a fake ID, and if the state they work in has distinctive licenses for those under age 21 (e.g., portrait rather than landscape), they would be much less likely to sell alcohol to underage youth. Yörük (2014) found that the retailer fake ID laws significantly reduced reported underage drinking up to a 0.22 drink decrease per day. Once the effect of the retailer fake ID is accounted for, dram shop laws had only a moderate effect (-2.5%), probably because the threat of a third-party suit is mitigated somewhat by insurance coverage.…”

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Assessing the Impact of Twenty Underage Drinking Laws

Fell

Scherer

Thomas

et al. 2016

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Over the last two decades, many states have adopted several of the 20 laws that aim to control youth access to and possession of alcohol and prevent underage drinking in the United States. However, many of these laws have not been evaluated since their adoption. The objective of this study was to determine which minimum legal drinking age 21 (MLDA-21) laws currently have an effect on underage drinking-and-driving fatal crashes. Method: We updated the effective dates of the 20 MLDA-21 laws examined in this study and used scores of each law's strengths and weaknesses. Our structural equation model included the 20 MLDA-21 laws, impaired driving laws, seat belt safety laws, economic strength, driving exposure, beer consumption, and fatal crash ratios of drinking-to-nondrinking drivers under age 21.

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Assessing the Impact of Twenty Underage Drinking Laws

Fell

Scherer

Thomas

et al. 2016

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…9. Our choice of age bandwidth follows Carpenter and Dobkin (2009) and Yörük andErtan Yörük (2011, 2013). However, we also present results for alternative age bandwidths.…”

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“…In Table , we report the sample weighted means for outcome variables. However, following Yörük (), we do not use sample weights in our regressions. In technical sampling report of the NLSY97, Moore et al.…”

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Do Minimum Legal Tobacco Purchase Age Laws Work?

Yörük

2015

Contemporary Economic Policy

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This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the minimum legal tobacco purchase age (MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997 Cohort), which contains information on the exact birth date of the respondents, we find that the effect of the MLTPA on several indicators of smoking among youth is minor and often insignificant. However, we also show that granting legal access to cigarettes and tobacco products at the MLTPA leads to an increase in several indicators of smoking participation, including up to a 5 percentage point increase in the probability of smoking for males and for those who reported to have smoked before. These results are robust under several alternative model specifications and imply that policies that are designed to restrict youth access to tobacco are quite effective in reducing smoking participation among certain groups of young adults.

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“…In Table 2 column [1], I report OLS estimates on the effects of participation in risky behaviors-smoking, alcohol, marijuana use, and multiple sex partners-4 These statistics are similar with other studies that use the NLSY97 data. Yörük and Yörük (2013) and Yörük (2014) find that 18% of the sample used marijuana similar to Pacula et al (2015) at 17%. The same holds for smoking, with participation rates ranging from 35% (Yörük 2014) to 41% (Yörük and Yörük 2013).…”

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Sex, Drugs, Alcohol and Subjective Well‐Being: Selection or Causation?

Nikolaou

2018

Kyklos

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Summary This paper estimates the effects of risky behaviors (e.g., smoking, alcohol, marijuana, risky sex) on subjective well‐being. To identify these effects from endogenous sorting, I use information from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and a system of simultaneous equations for participation in four risky activities and formation of individual happiness. My results provide evidence that smoking and alcohol decrease subjective well‐being by 2.5% and 2.4%, respectively. By contrast, the relationship between having sex with multiple partners, although positive, is not statistically significant at conventional levels. Nevertheless, these effects dwindle over time until participation in any of these behaviors does not have a long‐run impact on well‐being, with the exception of smoking and alcohol consumption, which have a persistent negative impact on subjective well‐being. The results highlight the importance of controlling for endogeneity of risky behaviors and provide an explanation as to why most individuals who engage in such behaviors do not develop longer‐lasting addictions.

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Can technology help to reduce underage drinking? Evidence from the false ID laws with scanner provision

Cited by 16 publications

References 30 publications

Assessing the Impact of Twenty Underage Drinking Laws

Assessing the Impact of Twenty Underage Drinking Laws

Do Minimum Legal Tobacco Purchase Age Laws Work?

Sex, Drugs, Alcohol and Subjective Well‐Being: Selection or Causation?

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