The effect of sunday sales of alcohol on highway crash fatalities

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Stehr, Mark F ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol; beer; blue laws; quasi experiment; spirits; Sunday sales; traffic fatalities; traffic safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956354008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1844     Document Type: Article

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