The regulation of automobile racing safety : an attempted test of the Peltzman hypothesis.

Author(s)
Bruce-Briggs, B.
Year
Abstract

In a much discussed series of papers the economist, Sam Peltzman, argued that government regulation has little or no effect upon highway safety because drivers have adapted to the safety improvements by driving more hazardously. Through an ingenious econometric analysis, he attributes fluctuations in the highway death rate to economic, demographic and other factors and concludes that drivers respond to improvements in the system by taking greater risks, leaving safety at the same level.

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Library number
B 18948 (In: B 18906 [electronic version only]) /10/83/ IRRD 256343
Source

In: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine AAAM, Rochester, New York, October 7-9, 1980, p. 478-497, 2 fig., 7 tab. 6 ref.

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