COVID‐19 lockdown and traffic accidents: Lessons from the pandemic

• Autor: Barnes, Stephen R. ; Beland, Louis‐Philippe ; Huh, Jason ; Kim, Dongwoo
• Assuntos: Accidents ; Ambulance service ; COVID-19 ; Discontinuity ; Economic policy ; Injuries ; lockdown ; Pandemics ; regression discontinuity ; Shelter in place ; Traffic ; Traffic accidents & safety ; traffic management
• É parte de: Contemporary economic policy, 2022-04, Vol.40 (2), p.349-368
• Descrição: We use a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of the COVID‐19 lockdown on traffic accidents. Based on administrative data from Louisiana, we find that the lockdown order led to a significant decrease in traffic accidents (−47%), including accidents involving injury (−46%) and ambulance (−41%). We also find evidence of heterogeneous changes in the decline of drivers involved in accidents, with a smaller decline among individuals aged 25 to 64, male, and nonwhite drivers.
  
• Editor: Huntington Beach: Western Economic Association
  
• Idioma: Inglês