Here’s a new way to reduce youth driving deaths:
We show that targeted legislation can change young people’s risky behaviour. We examine the effects of an Australian intervention to prevent first-year drivers from driving at night with many peers, which accounted for one-fifth of their road accidents. Using data on individual drivers linked to crash outcomes, we find more than half the conversion of targeted crashes, injuries and deaths. There is a large positive spillover into lower risks in the early evening and after the first year, suggesting a broad and continuing decline in high-risk driving. Overall, targeted interventions offer benefits that are comparable to strict restrictions that slow down youth driving.
That’s Timothy J. Moore and Todd Morris in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
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