U.S. Child Safety Seat Laws: Are they Effective, and Who Complies?
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U.S. Child Safety Seat Laws: Are they Effective, and Who Complies?
This paper assesses the effectiveness of child safety seat laws in the United States. Over the past 35 years, these laws have steadily increased mandatory child safety seat restraint ages. We exploit state-year level variation in the age until which children are required to ride in child safety seats to estimate triple difference models using Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data from ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0276-8739
DOI: 10.1002/pam.22004