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Analyzing road safety in the United States

Oster, Clinton V.; Strong, John S. - In: Research in Transportation Economics 43 (2013) 1, pp. 98-111

dimensions of road safety, and analyzes the importance of economic factors, travel patterns, demographics, road/traffic …This paper reviews road safety performance in the United States. The paper develops a framework for assessing …/vehicle technology, driver behavior, and public policy. Issues and challenges for future road safety research are discussed. …

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Comparing the fatality risks in United States transportation across modes and over time

Savage, Ian - In: Research in Transportation Economics 43 (2013) 1, pp. 9-22

This paper analyzes the transportation fatality risk in the United States. The analysis is in two parts. The first part compares the relative risks of the different modes based on data for the decade from 2000 to 2009. The second part is a time-series analysis for each mode using annual data...

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Uber and Metropolitan Traffic Fatalities in the United States

Brazil, Noli - 2016

episodes of drunk driving and the 10,000 resulting traffic fatalities that occur annually in the United States. We exploit … Uber's rideshare services and total, drunk driving-related, and weekend and holiday-specific traffic fatalities in the 100 … the deployment of Uber services in a given metropolitan county had no association with the number of subsequent traffic …

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The Grass is Greener on the Other Side : How Extensive is the Interstate Trafficking of Recreational Marijuana?

Hansen, Benjamin - 2018

. We also test if these inter-state spill-overs led to health externalities by studying traffic accidents in Oregon from …

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Legal Access to Marijuana and Motor Vehicle Fatalities in the United States, 1990--2019

Leung, Gregory; Dutra, Jessica - 2021

fatalities. The results show that legalization of medical marijuana laws are associated with a decrease in traffic fatalities by … 6.87 percent, while there is no statistically significant change in traffic fatalities rate after the legalization of …

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Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law

Makowsky, Michael D.; Stratmann, Thomas - 2012

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of laws and regulations. They are also determined by the incentives faced by vote-maximizing congressmen, agents acting on their behalf, and workers likely to compete with...

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U.S. border enforcement and the net flow of Mexican illegal migration

Angelucci, Manuela (contributor) - 2005

This paper investigates the effect of U.S. border enforcement on the net flow of Mexican undocumented migration. It shows how this effect is theoretically ambiguous, given that increases in border controls deter prospective migrants from crossing the border illegally, but lengthen the duration...

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Can Blockchain Technologies Resolve the U.S. Antitrust Enforcement Problem?

Massarotto, Giovanna - 2022

The U.S. antitrust enforcement mechanism is criticized for being ill-adapted to ensuring competition in digital platforms. In the U.S., several bills have been introduced in Congress with the aim to create a new antitrust regulatory framework for digital platforms. This paper proposes a...

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Twitter and crime : the effect of social movements on gender-based violence

Battisti, Michele; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Rude, Britta - 2022

This paper asks whether social movements taking place on Twitter affect gender-based violence (GBV). Using Twitter data and machine learning methods, we construct a novel data set on the prevalence of Twitter conversations about GBV. We then link this data to weekly crime reports at the federal...

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The Impact of Fear on Police Behavior and Public Safety

Cho, Sungwoo; Gonçalves, Felipe; Weisburst, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine how changes in the salience of workplace risk affect police behavior and public safety. Specifically, we … harm public safety …

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