The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health
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The minimum legal drinking age and public health.
The Amethyst Initiative, signed by more than 100 college presidents and other higher education officials calls for a reexamination of the minimum legal drinking age in the United States. A central argument of the initiative is that the U.S. minimum legal drinking age policy results in more dangerous drinking than would occur if the legal drinking age were lower. A companion organization called ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Perspectives
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0895-3309
DOI: 10.1257/jep.25.2.133