Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260875 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9745
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of vehicle collisions in Britain and a range of quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not find that the policy had an effect on road crash deaths and drunk driving collisions. The results are robust to several sensitivity exercises. There is no evidence of effect heterogeneity by income and other predictors of alcohol consumption or cross-border effects. A brief discussion of the policy implications of our findings is provided.
Subjects: 
externality
alcohol
minimum unit pricing
motor vehicle collisions
driving under the influence
JEL: 
D12
D62
H23
K42
R41
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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