Mandatory seatbelt laws and traffic fatalities: A reassessment
强制安全带法规与交通死亡：重新评估
Abstract Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for the period 1983–1997, Cohen and Einav ( Review of Economics and Statistics 2003; 85[4]: 828–843) found that mandatory seatbelt laws were associated with a 4–6% reduction in traffic fatalities among motor vehicle occupants. After successfully replicating their two‐way fixed effects estimates, we (1) add 22 years of data (1998–2019) to capture additional seatbelt policy variation and observe a longer…