Code for: Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Educational Outcomes

We provide the replication code for the paper titled "Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Educational Outcomes". In this paper, we study the impact of raising the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) from 16 to 18 on adolescent outcomes in Spain. We exploit the staggered timing of these reforms across Spanish regions to identify causal effects. We find that MLDA increases reduced alcohol consumption among 14-17 year-olds by 7 to 17%, improved exam performance by 4% of a standard deviation, and decreased the use of anxiolytics and hypnosedatives by 10%. These results suggest that reducing teenage alcohol access can significantly improve educational outcomes and mental health. The replication package includes all code necessary to reproduce the tables and figures in the paper. While the raw data are subject to confidentiality restrictions and cannot be redistributed in this package, all datasets can be obtained directly from the original providers following the detailed access procedures documented below.