Association between economic fluctuations and road mortality in OECD countries
Open Access
- 24 February 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 24 (4), 612-614
- https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cku014
Abstract
Using longitudinal data from 32 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries (1970-2010), this article investigates association between annual variations in road mortality and the economic fluctuations. Two regression models (fixed-effects and random-coefficients) were adopted for estimation. The cross-country data analyses suggested that road mortality is pro-cyclical and that the cyclicality is symmetric. Based on data from 32 OECD countries, an increase of on average 1% in economic growth is associated with a 1.1% increase in road mortality, and vice versa.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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