Coming of Age: The Hidden Health Costs of Legal Age Limits
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- Petri Böckerman & Mika Haapanen & Christopher Jepsen, 2025. "Coming of Age: The Hidden Health Costs of Legal Age Limits," CESifo Working Paper Series 11907, CESifo.
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Keywords
sibling effects; hospitalizations; mortality; legal age; drinking age; regression discontinuity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
- H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2025-06-09 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HEA-2025-06-09 (Health Economics)
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