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USSeatBelts: Effects of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws in the US

Description

Balanced panel data for the years 1983--1997 from 50 US States, plus the District of Columbia, for assessing traffic fatalities and seat belt usage.

Usage

data("USSeatBelts")

source

Online complements to Stock and Watson (2007).

http://wps.aw.com/aw_stock_ie_2/

Details

Some data series from Cohen and Einav (2003) have not been included in the data frame.

References

Cohen, A., and Einav, L. (2003). The Effects of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Driving Behavior and Traffic Fatalities. (The Review of Economics and Statistics), (85), 828--843

Stock, J.H. and Watson, M.W. (2007). Introduction to Econometrics, 2nd ed. Boston: Addison Wesley.

StockWatson2007

data("USSeatBelts") summary(USSeatBelts)

library("lattice") xyplot(fatalities ~ as.numeric(as.character(year)) | state, data = USSeatBelts, type = "l")

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