Blalock, Garrick; Kadiyali, Vrinda; Simon, Daniel H. - 2011
screening on the demand for air travel. These two congressionally mandated measures are the most visible changes in airport …We examine the impact of post-9/11 airport security measures on air travel in the U.S. Using five years of data on … volume. We provide evidence that the reduction in demand was an unintended consequence of baggage screening and not the …