TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Alcohol-related traffic laws and drunk-driving fatal accidents
JO  - Accident analysis and prevention
A1  - Lee, La-Troy
A1  - Wright, Nicholas A.
SP  - e106358
EP  - e106358
VL  - 161
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0001-4575
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106358
ID  - ref1
ER  -