We provide evidence that graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws, originally intended to improve public safety, impact human capital accumulation. Many teens use automobiles to access both school and employment. Because school and work decisions are interrelated, the effects of automobile-specific...

We provide evidence that graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws, originally intended to improve public safety, impact human capital accumulation. Many teens use automobiles to access both school and employment. Because school and work decisions are interrelated, the effects of automobile-specific...

Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for the period 1983-1997, Cohen and Einav (Review of Economics and Statistics 2003; 85(4): 828 843) found that mandatory seatbelt laws were associated with a 4 to 6 percent reduction in traffic fatalities among motor vehicle occupants. After...

Die Elektromobilität, die Notwendigkeit der Technologie und deren Marktdurchdringung werden einerseits stark gefördert, andererseits stellen sich die erwartete Nutzerakzeptanz und Nachfrage noch nicht im wie von weiten Teilen von Wirtschaft und Politik gewünschten Rahmen ein. Frau Hillenbrand...

Sharingangebote sind eine moderne Nahmobilitätsdienstleistung, die in eine weiter gefasste staatliche Verantwortung für umweltverträgliche Mobilität eingeordnet werden können. Der Staat nimmt eine solche Verantwortung für Sharingangebote wahr, indem er diesen öffentliche Straßenflächen...

Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for the period 1983-1997, Cohen and Einav (Review of Economics and Statistics 2003; 85(4): 828-843) found that mandatory seatbelt laws were associated with a 4 to 6 percent reduction in traffic fatalities among motor vehicle occupants. After...

We provide evidence that graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws, originally intended to improve public safety, impact both high school completion and teen employment. Many teens use automobiles to commute both to school and to employment. Because school and work decisions are interrelated, the...

Teens are risky drivers and often subject to extra restrictions. We examine the effects of an Australian intervention banning first-year drivers from carrying multiple passengers between 11:00pm and 4:59am, which had represented 3% of their accidents and 18% of their fatalities. Using daytime...