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Article de Périodique
The virtuous tax: Lifesaving and crime-prevention effects of the 1991 federal alcohol-tax increase (2013)
Auteur(s) :
COOK, P. J. ;
DURRANCE, C. P.
Année
2013
Page(s) :
261-267
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Alcool / Alcohol
Discipline :
LOI (Loi et son application / Law enforcement)
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Thésaurus mots-clés
ALCOOL
;
TAXE
;
CRIMINALITE
;
ACCIDENT
;
PREVENTION
;
CRIME
;
PRIX
;
VIOLENCE
;
MORTALITE
;
MODELE STATISTIQUE
Résumé :
The last time that federal excise taxes on alcoholic beverages were increased was 1991. The changes were larger than the typical state-level changes that have been used to study price effects, but the consequences have not been assessed due to the lack of a control group. Here we develop and implement a novel method for utilizing interstate heterogeneity to estimate the aggregate effects of a federal tax increase on rates of injury fatality and crime. We provide evidence that the relative importance of alcohol in violence and injury rates is directly related to per capita consumption, and build on that finding to generate estimates. A conservative estimate is that the federal tax (which increased alcohol prices by 6% initially) reduced injury deaths by 4.5% (6480 deaths), in 1991, and had a still larger effect on violent crime.
Affiliation :
Public Policy and Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA