Patterns of Self-Reported Drinking and Driving in Michigan

Anda, Robert F.; Remington, Patrick L.; Dodson, Dennis L.; DeGuire, Peter; Forman, Michéle R.; Gunn, Robert A.

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“…Alcohol consumption is measured using responses to questions about occasions of heavy drinking in the past year and consumption in the past two weeks. Although the self-reported measures are probably underestimates, Anda et al [1987;19881 find that self-reported measures similar to these are well correlated with objective measures of alcohol-related crashes and injuries. Similarly, I find that estimates of the prevalence of heavy drinking by state based on self-reported measures are reasonably well-correlated with objective measures of alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis rates.I2…”

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New Estimates of the Optimal Tax on Alcohol

1996

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In this paper I use a new data set to estimate the optimal alcohol tax rate. As a benchmark, the empirical results imply that the optimal tax rate is over 100 percent of the net-@-tax price. However, alcohol taxation is a second-best solution to the problems associated with alcohol abuse. I conclude that the optimal alcohol tax rate would be much lower fpunishmentfor drunk driving were more certain and severe. Government provision qfir@rmation about the health consequences @heavy drinking would also remove part @ the efficiency rationale for alcohol taxes.

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1996

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“…As in a number of recent studies, we rely on self-reported measures of drinking behaviour. Although Anda et al (1987Anda et al ( , 1988 find that self-reported measures similar to the one used below are well correlated with objective measures of alcohol-related crashes and injuries, measurement error is an obvious concern. In Appendix A we show that under certain reasonable assumptions our estimator will be consistent in the presence of measurement error in the drinking variable (D) and/or the binary advice variable (A).…”

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The effect of physician advice on alcohol consumption: count regression with an endogenous treatment effect

Kenkel

Terza

2001

J of Applied Econometrics

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SUMMARYAlthough there are encouraging trends, alcohol abuse continues to be a significant public health problem. Econometric studies of alcohol demand have yielded a great deal of information for alcohol abuse prevention policy. These studies suggest that higher alcohol taxes and stricter drunk-driving policies can reduce heavy drinking and drunk driving. In this paper we explore the role physician advice plays in the campaign to prevent alcohol-related problems. Compared to alcohol taxation, physician advice is a more precisely targeted intervention that does not impose extra costs on responsible drinkers. Compared to the resource costs of arresting, processing, and punishing drunk drivers, physician advice may be a lower-cost intervention. To provide a basis for alcohol policy analysis, we use an alcohol demand framework to test whether physicianprovided information about the adverse consequences of alcohol abuse shifts demand to more moderate levels. There are three aspects of our alcohol demand model that complicate the estimation: (1) the dependent variable is non-negative (it is a count variable-number of drinks consumed); (2) a non-trivial number of sample observations have zero values for the dependent variable; and (3) because the data we use is nonexperimental, the treatment variable indicating receipt of advice from a physician may be endogenous. We implement an estimation method that is specifically designed to deal with these three complicating factors. Our results show that advice has a substantial and significant impact on alcohol consumption by males with hypertension, and that failing to account for the endogeneity of advice masks this result.

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Clinical Preventive Services Efficacy and Adolescents' Risky Behaviors

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Klein

1995

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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Patterns of Self-Reported Drinking and Driving in Michigan

Cited by 14 publications

References 10 publications

New Estimates of the Optimal Tax on Alcohol

New Estimates of the Optimal Tax on Alcohol

The effect of physician advice on alcohol consumption: count regression with an endogenous treatment effect

Clinical Preventive Services Efficacy and Adolescents' Risky Behaviors

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