Abstract
In drunk driving fatality accidents in the United States in 2016, 30% of drivers that caused the accidents were between the ages of 18 and 24. This proposal looks at the effect Criminal Social Host laws have on underage drunk driving fatalities in the United States. Criminal Social Host laws have not been researched by previous researchers. The number of states that have Criminal Social Host laws increased from 16 in 1998 to 31 in 2018. The data for this proposal comes from all fifty states and spans from 1998 to 2018. The model used is a fixed effects model where the fatality rates are sub-divide into 15-17 and 18-20 age cohorts and the control group is the sober fatality rate of each group while the treatment is the drunk driving fatality rate for the age group. The additional control variables in this estimation were real beer taxes, dummy variable for BAC of 0.08, dummy variable for the state speed limit over 70 miles per hour, the natural log of miles driven, real per capita income, GDL laws and unemployment. The results were that Criminal Social Host laws have no effect on underage drunk driving fatality rates.