Impact of the implementation of an emergency care service on the deaths due to traffic accidents: The case of SAME in the province of Buenos Aires

Impacto de la implementación de un servicio de atención de emergencias sobre las muertes por accidentes de tránsito: el caso del SAME en la provincia de Buenos Aires

Ivana Benzaquén (), Nicolás Epele () and Mariana Marchionni

Estudios Economicos, 2023, vol. 040 (Nueva Serie), issue 80, 43-76

Abstract: This paper evaluates the impact of the implementation of the Emergency Medical Attention Service (SAME) in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on deaths from road accidents. Based on monthly information on traffic accidents of the 135 municipalities of the province for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018, we exploit the variability at the time of implementation among municipalities and the fact that some never adopted the service for identify the average effect of the intervention in municipalities with SAME using the Differences in Differences methodology. The results suggest that the adoption of the SAME produced an average reduction of 19% in the death rate per thousand injured with respect to the baseline

Keywords: emergency service; SAME; deaths from traffic accidents; road safety; differences in differences; impact evaluation; servicio de emergencias; SAME; defunciones por accidentes de tránsito; seguridad vial; diferencias en diferencias; evaluación de impacto (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.52292/j.estudecon.2023.3056

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