Replication data for: Spring Forward at Your Own Risk: Daylight Saving Time and Fatal Vehicle Crashes
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Austin C. Smith
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Project Citation:
Smith, Austin C. Replication data for: Spring Forward at Your Own Risk: Daylight Saving Time and Fatal Vehicle Crashes. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113608V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Daylight Saving Time (DST) impacts over 1.5 billion people, yet many of its impacts on practicing populations remain uncertain. Exploiting the discrete nature of DST transitions and a 2007 policy change, I estimate the impact of DST on fatal automobile crashes. My results imply that from 2002-2011 the transition into DST caused over 30 deaths at a social cost of $275 million annually. Employing four tests to decompose the aggregate effect into an ambient light or sleep mechanism, I find that shifting ambient light only reallocates fatalities within a day, while sleep deprivation caused by the spring transition increases risk. (JEL I12, Q48, R41)
Scope of Project
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Automobile Crashes
JEL Classification:
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I12 Health Behavior
Q48 Energy: Government Policy
R41 Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
I12 Health Behavior
Q48 Energy: Government Policy
R41 Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
Geographic Coverage:
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Contiguous United States
Time Period(s):
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1976 – 2011
Methodology
Data Source:
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Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) 1976-2011
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