Replication data for: Spring Forward at Your Own Risk: Daylight Saving Time and Fatal Vehicle Crashes

Name: Replication data for: Spring Forward at Your Own Risk: Daylight Saving Time and Fatal Vehicle Crashes
Published: 2016-04-01
License: This work is licensed under an Other license created by the data depositor. Please refer to the LICENSE file, which should be located alongside the project data and documentation.
Keywords: Automobile Crashes

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Austin C. Smith

Version: View help for Version V1

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Project Description

Summary: Daylight Saving Time (DST) impacts over 1.5 billion people, yet many of its impacts on practicing populations remain uncertain. Exploiting the discrete nature of DST transitions and a 2007 policy change, I estimate the impact of DST on fatal automobile crashes. My results imply that from 2002-2011 the transition into DST caused over 30 deaths at a social cost of $275 million annually. Employing four tests to decompose the aggregate effect into an ambient light or sleep mechanism, I find that shifting ambient light only reallocates fatalities within a day, while sleep deprivation caused by the spring transition increases risk. (JEL I12, Q48, R41)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Automobile Crashes

JEL Classification:
      I12 Health Behavior
      Q48 Energy: Government Policy
      R41 Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise

Geographic Coverage: Contiguous United States

Methodology

Data Source: Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) 1976-2011

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