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This paper investigates the decline in traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries during the months that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders implemented in Turkey. Taking into account the decline in accidents in March and April together, these rates roughly translate to 200 traffic related deaths and...
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Driving under the influence of alcohol is a major cause of fatalities worldwide. There have been a range of legislative and policy interventions that aim to address this. Bar closing hours is one policy with clear implications for drink driving. Existing evidence, largely drawn from one-off...
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state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation in the spy density in the 1980s …, we exploit discontinuities at state borders to show that higher levels of Stasi surveillance led to lower levels of … losses throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Overall, our results suggest that the social and economic costs of state surveillance …
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process and capital devoted to monitoring workers. Surveillance capital intensifies workers' job strain, while wage …
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measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight, height, and body mass index during early childhood. We find that … mobility is quite high prior to primary school and then declines noticeably. However, there are important sources of …
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results show that except for some periods of intense mobility restrictions, relative to travel patterns in 2019, mobility in …
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This paper studies the dynamics of human mobility during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries around … the world. The main goal of the analysis is to empirically separate voluntary reductions in mobility driven by the …. Google human mobility dataset is used to track the dynamics of mobility across a wide range of categories (e.g. workplace …
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We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …
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The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its … effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and … paper encourages discussion about how to measure infrastructure capital, particularly highways and streets, and its effects. …
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This paper builds on a previous paper by the authors (Kornfeld and Fraumeni, 2022) that primarily used U.S. Federal Highway Administration Highway Statistics data to disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types to produce updated estimates of net wealth stocks and...
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