ECON 345 Chapter Notes -Seat Belt, Liran, Blood Alcohol Content

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON 345
• Professor: Alan Mehlenbacher

Document Summary

Seatbelts is a balanced panel from 50 u. s. states, plus the district of columbia, for the years 1983-1997. These data were provided by professor liran einav of stanford. University and were used in his paper with alma cohen the effects of mandatory seat. Belt laws on driving behavior and traffic fatalities, the review of economics and. Number of fatalities per million of traffic miles. Binary variable for 65 mile per hour speed limit. Binary variable for 70 or higher mile per hour speed limit. Binary variable for blood alcohol limit . 08% Binary variable for primary enforcement of seat belt laws. Binary variable for secondary enforcement of seat belt laws. Millions of traffic miles per year. (note: number of fatalities = fatalityrate vmt)