The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Mobility and Traffic Accidents: Evidence from Louisiana
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- Barnes, Stephen R. & Beland, Louis-Philippe & Huh, Jason & Kim, Dongwoo, 2020. "The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Mobility and Traffic Accidents: Evidence from Louisiana," GLO Discussion Paper Series 616, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
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Keywords
COVID-19; Lockdown; Accidents; Traffic Management; Regression Discontinuity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- R20 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - General
- R41 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
- R42 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Government and Private Investment Analysis; Road Maintenance; Transportation Planning
- R48 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Government Pricing and Policy
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2020-08-10 (Health Economics)
- NEP-TRE-2020-08-10 (Transport Economics)
- NEP-URE-2020-08-10 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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