Abstract
The dynamics of drinking and driving can be adequately described using the fraction of accidents involving drivers who had been drinking. Evaluating drunk driving legislation using this measure implicitly controls for unobservable “general risk” influences on traffic safety, reducing bias and variability in estimates of laws’ effects, especially in the early studies that influence lawmakers most strongly. It also allows more precise, individual-level regressions to be conducted. These indicate that the widespread enactment of seven key drunk driving laws explains only one-fifth of the reduction in drinking and driving over the past generation. The effect of social forces is comparable.
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