Journal article
Intended and Unintended Consequences of Youth Bicycle Helmet Laws
The Journal of law & economics, v 54(2), pp 305-324
01 May 2011
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Abstract
More than 20 states have adopted laws requiring youths to wear a helmet when riding a bicycle. We confirm previous research indicating that these laws reduced fatalities and increased helmet use, but we also show that the laws significantly reduced youth bicycling. We find this result in standard two-way fixed-effects models of parental reports of youth bicycling and in triple-difference models of self-reported bicycling among high school youths that explicitly account for bicycling by youths just above the age threshold of the helmet law. Our results highlight important intended and unintended consequences of a well-intentioned public policy.
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- Title
- Intended and Unintended Consequences of Youth Bicycle Helmet Laws
- Creators
- Christopher S. Carpenter - University of California, IrvineMark Stehr - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- The Journal of law & economics, v 54(2), pp 305-324
- Publisher
- Univ Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 20
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000299114000003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-80655134718
- Other Identifier
- 991019168166604721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Economics
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