Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2021
This paper investigates the impacts of COVID-19 safer-at-home polices on collisions and pollution. We find that … statewide safer-at-home policies lead to a 20% reduction in vehicular collisions and that the effect is entirely driven by less … period of a safer-at-home order, representing a 25% reduction. We document a similar reduction in air pollution following the …