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Direct linkCarpenter, Christopher – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
On April 1, 1994, Ontario, Canada, instituted a new graduated driver license (GDL) system that effectively set the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) threshold at zero for the first few years of a youth's driving eligibility. I use data from the 1983-2001 Ontario Student Drug Use Surveys (OSDUS) to examine whether the Zero Tolerance (ZT) policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drug Use, Age, Zero Tolerance Policy
Carpenter, Christopher – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
This paper uses the widespread variation across states in the timing of adoption of tougher drunk driving laws that set very low legal blood alcohol limits for drivers under age 21--"zero tolerance" (ZT) laws--to provide new evidence on the causal effect of alcohol use on youth suicide. ZT laws reduced heavy episodic drinking by underage men, with…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, Suicide, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse
