Hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a., fracking, requires intense truck trips to transport a large volume ofwater within a narrow time window, posing a safety threat to other road users. This paper examineshow fracking-related trucking affects fatal crashes in North Dakota using the exogenous timingof...

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act intensified debates over the role of government in the distribution of healthcare. A nationally-representative sample of Americans reported their estimated and ideal distributions of healthcare (unmet need for prescription medications) and...

This paper investigates the effects on traffic safety and the associated economic savings of the introduction of RITEVE, the Periodical Technical Inspections (PTI) in Costa Rica. Since there were no national estimates for the costs of crashes in Costa Rica available, this study derives and...

With climate change accelerating, the frequency of climate disasters is expected to increase in the decades to come. There is ongoing debate as to how different climatic regions will be affected by such an acceleration. In this paper, we describe a model for predicting the frequency of climate...