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The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age

Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2010

This paper estimates the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression … alcohol consumption results in a discrete 9 percent increase in the mortality rate at age 21. The overall increase in deaths … total mortality. Given that mortality due to external causes peaks at about age 21 and that young adults report very high …

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The Life-Saving Effect of Hospital Proximity

Bertoli, Paola - 2017

We provide a new assessment of the effect of hospital proximity in an emergency situation exploiting the exogenous variation in the proximity to cities that are legally allowed to have a hospital based on their population size. Based on Italian municipal data, our instrumental variable results...

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Fraccidents : The Impact of Fracking on Road Traffic Deaths

Xu, Minhong - 2020

Hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a., fracking, requires intense truck trips to transport a large volume ofwater within a narrow time window, posing a safety threat to other road users. This paper examineshow fracking-related trucking affects fatal crashes in North Dakota using the exogenous timingof...

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Death on the job: the Great Recession and work-related traffic fatalities

French, Michael T.; Gumus, Gulcin - 2021

In light of recent discussions about shifting employees from traditional workplaces to virtual employment, we are motivated by the question of whether this phenomenon will end up saving lives even in the absence of an infectious disease outbreak. Motor vehicle incidents are the leading cause of...

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Road Safety for Fleets of Vehicles

Dionne, Georges; Desjardins, Denise; Angers, Jean-François - 2021

Road safety for fleets of vehicles has been neglected in the insurance literature, mainly because appropriate data is not available. This paper makes a threefold contribution: 1) Produce statistics on current fleets’ road safety offences using a panel of 20 years of data on truck fleets; 2)...

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Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life Using Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) Data

Viscusi, W. Kip - 2013

Labor market estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) using the Census of Fatal Occupational Injury (CFOI) data take advantage of this more accurate fatality data and the capability to construct more refined measures of worker fatality risks. This paper reviews all labor market VSL...

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