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L'ojectifs de cette etude est d'analyser les accidents routier des vehicules commerciaux motorises (entreprises de …
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reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant …Many governments subsidize regional rail service as an alternative to road traffic. This paper assesses whether … increases in service frequency reduce road traffic externalities. We exploit differences in service frequency growth by …
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.4% reduction in traffic flow, which resulted in a less than proportional 6.0% and 7.6% decrease in accidents and slight injuries …This paper estimates the marginal accident externality of driving in Central London by exploiting variation in traffic …, and serious injuries/fatalities rate elasticities with respect to traffic flow are -0.36, -0.19 and -1.65 respectively …
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We use a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on mobility and traffic accidents … Transportation and Develop- ment (LaDOTD), we find that the stay-at-home order led to a large decrease in traffic accidents (-47 …. Based on data from Google Community Mobility reports and Uniform Traffic Crash Report from the Louisiana Department of …
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Crime is an illness that attacks rights of individuals. It therefore interests everybody in a society. It is argued that as urbanization increases so does crime. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of crime in urban areas by using cross-sectional data. The...
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Understanding the degree of geographical crime displacement is crucial for the design of crime prevention policies. This paper documents changes in automobile theft risk that were generated by the plausibly exogenous introduction of Lojack, a highly effective stolen vehicle recovery device, into...
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This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of crossstate externalities associated with gun regulations that impact gun trafficking. Using tracing data, which identify the source state for crime guns recovered in destination states, we find that firearms tend to flow from states...
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Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized trial testing whether these institutions can be reformed through incremental administrative...
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a second experiment that provided explicit incentives to police officers to carry out sobriety traffic checkpoints and …
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This paper analyzes how the budget allocated to state prosecutors' offices vary across prosecutorial districts and the reasons for such variation by empirical methods, using data from Census of Prosecutors and other sources. The main results of this paper are as follows. Other factors being...
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