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

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 ambulanc...

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Publicado en:Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 349 - 369
Autores principales: Barnes, Stephen R., Beland, Louis‐Philippe, Huh, Jason, Kim, Dongwoo
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2022
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