Drunk driving after the passage of smoking bans in bars

The impact of casinos on fatal alcohol-related traffic accidents in the United States

“…To capture these, we employ an approach employed by Adams and Cotti (2008), which utilizes the log number of accidents per county that were not alcohol-related (also measured in the FARS data). This control isolates the effect of the independent variables (including the casino variables) apart from the many potentially omitted factors that make it more dangerous to drive in any particular locality.…”

The effectiveness of incomplete and overlapping pollution regulation: Evidence from bans on phosphate in automatic dishwasher detergent

“…This demand-side leakage has received noticeably less attention in the environmental economics literature (see Bushnell, Peterman, and Wolfram 2008), but has a long history in other fields of economics. A wide range of examples include the smuggling of alcohol and tobacco across state borders, the effects of differential drinking laws on traffic fatalities, cross-border food purchases, the effects of state taxes on online purchases, and state lotteries (e.g., Baltagi and Goel 1987;Thursby and Thursby 2000;Stehr 2007;Tosun and Skidmore 2007;Adams and Cotti 2008;Goolsbee, Lovenheim, and Slemrod 2010;Lovenheim and Slemrod 2010;Knight and Schiff 2012;Einav, Knoepfle, Levin, and Sundaresan 2014). This paper also contributes to the literature on wastewater treatment facility behavior and the impact of regulations on these facilities (e.g., Earnhart 2004Earnhart , 2007Shimshack andWard, 2005, 2008;Chakraborti and McConnell, 2012).…”

The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces

“…For example, Adams and Cotti (2008) show that the implementation of smoke-free policies in the USA was associated to increasing rates of vehicular deaths, due to either longer time spent by smokers driving to find public smoking places, or due to the fact that such bans are likely to induce smokers to smoke more in their cars, thus generating a source of distraction while driving. In line with these results, Adda and Cornaglia (2006) provide some evidence on the displacement effects generated by some types of smoking bans.…”