Drink, death and driving : do blood alcohol content limit reductions improve road safety?

Cooper, Benjamin and Gehrsitz, Markus and McIntyre, Stuart G. (2020) Drink, death and driving : do blood alcohol content limit reductions improve road safety? Health Economics, 29 (7). pp. 841-847. ISSN 1057-9230 (https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4016)

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Abstract

This study exploits a natural experiment in Scotland where the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit was reduced from 0.8 to 0.5 mg per 100 ml of blood while staying constant in all other parts of the United Kingdom. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that this change in the BAC level had no impact on either traffic accident or fatality rates.

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Cooper, Benjamin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5985-9016, Gehrsitz, Markus ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0826-0582 and McIntyre, Stuart G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0640-7544;
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