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by Adit Laixuthai Frank Chaloupka National
Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. This paper examines the
frequency of youth drinking and heavy drinking in 1982 and 1989. The effects
of minimum legal drinking ages and beer excise taxes are considered separately
for each year. In both years, drinking is found to be responsive to changes
in prices resulting from higher excise taxes. However, the price sensitivity
of youth alcohol use fell after the change to a uniform legal drinking
age of 21.
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