Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities: The Case of Fatal Road Crashes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan
• 署名单位: University of Essex; University of Bath
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1520-7178
• DOI: 10.1002/pam.22414
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 1118-1156
• 关键词: save lives; sweetened beverages; Control policies; drinking; LAWS; tax; consumption; sales; marijuana; interventions

摘要

In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of vehicle collisions in Britain and a range of quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not find that the policy had an effect on road crash deaths and drunk driving collisions. The results are robust to several sensitivity exercises. There is no evidence of effect heterogeneity by income and other predictors of alcohol consumption or cross-border effects. A brief discussion of the policy implications of our findings is provided.