@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol-related traffic laws and drunk-driving fatal accidents",
journal="Accident analysis and prevention",
year="2021",
author="Lee, La-Troy and Wright, Nicholas A.",
volume="161",
number="",
pages="e106358-e106358",
abstract="In the United States, about 28 lives are lost daily in motor vehicle accidents that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. While most states have enacted various traffic laws to address this phenomenon, little consensus exists on the causal impact of these laws in reducing alcohol-induced fatalities. This paper exploits quasi-random variation in state-level laws to estimate the causal effect of alcohol-related traffic laws on the frequency of fatal accidents. This is identified from the discontinuities in traffic laws among contiguous counties that are separated by a shared state border. We present robust evidence that the conventional approaches that are typically utilized in the literature may erroneously estimate the effectiveness of several alcohol-related laws.  Keywords: Ethanol impaired driving <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-4575",
doi="10.1016/j.aap.2021.106358",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106358"
}