The Effects of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Driving Behavior and Traffic Fatalities

By Alma Cohen, Liran Einav. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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Visualization and analysis of mapping knowledge domain of road safety studies. (2018, background): “…et al., 2011), utilization of speed cameras (Pilkington and Kinra, 2005; Pérez et al., 2007; Wilson et al., 2010), alcohol-impaired driving law enforcement (Nagata et al., 2008), and seat belt law enforcement (Houston and Richardson, 2002; Cohen and Einav, 2003; Farmer and Williams, 2005).”
Like ripples on a pond: behavioral spillovers and their implications for research and policy (2015, positive): “…can adjust their behavior in response to the perceived level of risk (Asch, Levy, Shea, & Bodenhorn, 1991; Bhattacharyya & Layton, 1979; Cohen & Einav, 2003; Evans & Graham, 1991; Garbacz, 1990a, 1990b, 1991, 1992; Peltzman, 1975; Rudin-Brown & Jamson, 2013; Schoemaker, 1993; Viscusi &…”
Joint Analysis of Injury Severity of Drivers in Two-Vehicle Crashes Accommodating Seat Belt Use Endogeneity (2013, background): “…issues have been studied extensively in the context of seat belt use impact on injury severity (see de Lapparent, 2008, Eluru and Bhat, 2007, Cohen and Einav, 2003, Levitt and Porter, 2001), and not in the context of DUI or vehicle ownership decisions, or other driving decisions on injury…”
WreckWatch: Automatic Traffic Accident Detection and Notification with Smartphones (2011, background): “A number of technological and sociological improvements have helped reduce traffic fatalities during the past decade, e.g., each 1% increase in seatbelt usage is estimated to save 136 lives [ 7 ].”
Adaptive Markets and the New World Order (corrected May 2012) (2011, neutral): “See, for example, Crandall and Graham (1984); Farmer, Lund, Trempel, and Braver (1997); and Cohen and Einav (2003).”
Ride-Sharing, Fatal Crashes, and Crime (2017, positive): “Dee et al. (2005) demonstrate that graduated driver licensing laws reduce fatalities among the teens whose driving is restricted.”
Life and Death in the Fast Lane: Police Enforcement and Traffic Fatalities (2014, background): “The distributions suggest the fraction of roadways of a good or very good 31Given that Cohen and Einav (2003) found evidence that manadatory laws affect seat belt usage, then decreases in enforcement could affect seat belt usage.”