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The study was authored by Angela Fertig, assistant professor in the university’s College of Public Health. We’ve only seen the press release, but a summary says a drinking age of 18:

• Increases prenatal alcohol consumption among 18- to 20-year-old women by 21 percent;

• Increases the number of births to 18- to 20-year-olds by 4.6 percent in white women and 3.9 percent in 18- to 20-year-old African-American women;
• Increases the likelihood of women under age 21 having a low-birth weight baby by 6 percent (4 percent for white women and 8 percent for African-American women);
• And increases the likelihood of premature birth by 5 percent in white women under age 18 and by 7 percent in African-American women under age 18.