Transport Policy in the Digital Age: Insights from the Entry of Ride-Hailing Platforms in Chile

Lagos Vicente (), Muñoz-Acevedo Ángela () and Zulehner Christine ()
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Lagos Vicente: Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Route de Saclay , 91120 Palaiseau , France
Muñoz-Acevedo Ángela: Deloitte Finance, 6 Place de La Pyramide Tour Majunga Deloitte, 92800 Puteaux, France
Zulehner Christine: University of Vienna, WIFO and CEPR, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria

Review of Network Economics, 2025, vol. 24, issue 3, 113-160

Abstract: We empirically assess the impact of ride-hailing platforms on the incidence of drunk-driving fatal crashes and fatalities in Chile. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we study heterogeneous effects in fatalities by gender and role in the crash (driver or passenger). Our results suggest that the introduction of ride-hailing platforms has significantly reduced fatal crashes and fatalities, especially the number of female passengers’ fatalities and the number of male drivers’ fatalities at night. The former result may evidence that ride-hailing platforms like Uber can contribute to the mitigation of the mobility bias against women in the traditional transport sector.

Keywords: Uber; ride-hailing; alcohol-related crashes; drunk-driving; traffic fatalities; mobility bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 K42 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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