>From: "Edward Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Excessive drinking
>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:42:18 -0500
>
>1. I reckon that venue counts on this issue. Dropping the legal age to 18
>drives drinking underground: out of bars and restaurants, into dorm rooms
>and frat parties. The unit price is far lower in the latter. So use the
>law of demand.
[...]
>
>One of my intermediate micro students actually "got" #1 this semseter.
You mean, he "got" #1 as in "figured it out on a test or quiz," or "got" it
as in "was caught drinking under the legal age in a dorm room / frat party"?
;)
(No shame either way - drinking underage led me to many valuable conclusions
on the economics of age limitations)
-JP
>Ed.
>
>Edward J. López
>Assistant Professor
>Department of Economics
>University of North Texas
>P.O. Box 311457
>Denton, TX 76203-1457
>Tel: 940.369.7005
>Fax: 940.565.4426
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