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Booster Seats and Traffic Fatalities Among Children
Anderson, D. Mark - 2016
In an effort to increase booster seat use among children, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is … booster seats relative to child safety seats and adult seat belts. For children 6 to 8 years of age, we find that booster … decreasing the likelihood of fatality in a motor vehicle accident. For children 2 to 5 years of age, all three forms of restraint …
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Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
Anderson, D. Mark - 2011
To date, 16 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their effects. Using state-level data, we examine the relationship between medical marijuana laws and a variety of outcomes. Legalization of medical marijuana is associated with increased use of marijuana among...
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The Effect of Health on Income : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
Halla, Martin - 2011
This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
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Per Se Drugged Driving Laws and Traffic Fatalities
Anderson, D. Mark - 2012
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) recently announced a goal of reducing drugged driving by 10 percent within three years. In an effort to achieve this goal, ONDCP is encouraging all states to adopt per se drugged driving laws, which make it illegal to operate a motor vehicle...
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Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2020
We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of police reported accidents in a generalized...
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The Effects of Health Insurance Parity Laws for Substance Use Disorder Treatment on Traffic Fatalities : Evidence of Unintended Benefits
Popovici, Ioana - 2017
Each year, 10,000 individuals die in alcohol-impaired traffic accidents in the United States, while psychoactive drugs are involved in 20% of all fatal traffic accidents. We investigate whether state parity laws for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have the unintended benefit of reducing...
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Fast Times During Spring Breaks : Are Traffic Fatalities Another Consequence?
French, Michael T. - 2014
Every year in the United States, millions of college students travel for spring break, spending billions of dollars. We examine a potential adverse consequence of spring break that has received little attention in the literature – traffic safety. In particular, we estimate the impact of spring...
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Breaking the Link between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents : Evidence from New South Wales
Lindo, Jason M. - 2014
A large literature has documented significant public health benefits associated with the minimum legal drinking age in the United States, particularly because of the resulting effects on motor vehicle accidents. These benefits form the primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access...
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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An Extra Hour Wasted? Bar Closing Hours and Traffic Accidents in Norway
Green, Colin P.; Krehic, Lana - 2021
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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