Did California's hand-held cell phone ban reduce accidents?

被引：30

作者：

Burger, Nicholas E. ^{[1
]}

Kaffine, Daniel T. ^{[2
]}

Yu, Bob ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] RAND Corp, Arlington, VA USA

[2] Univ Colorado, Dept Econ, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

[3] Colorado Sch Mines, Div Math & Comp Sci, Golden, CO 80401 USA

来源：

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE | 2014年 / 66卷

关键词：

Cell phone ban; Traffic safety; Regression discontinuity; REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGNS; RESTRICTIONS; TELEPHONE; DRIVERS; AIR;

D O I：

10.1016/j.tra.2014.05.008

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

On July 1st, 2008, California enacted a ban on hand-held cell phone use while driving. Using California Highway Patrol panel accident data for California freeways from January 1st, 2008 to December 31st, 2008, we examine whether this policy reduced the number of accidents on California highways. To control for unobserved time-varying effects that could be correlated with the ban, we use high-frequency data and a regression discontinuity design. We find no evidence that the ban on hand-held cell phone use led to a reduction in traffic accidents. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：162 / 172

页数：11

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