Freedman, Seth; Kearney, Melissa; Lederman, Mara - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 2, pp. 499-516
In 2007, the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued 212 recalls of toys and other children's products, a sizable increase from previous years. We investigate changes in toy sales following these recalls. We find that for manufacturers that had recalls, unit sales of the types of toys involved...