Traffic Fatalities and Public Sector Corruption

Nejat Anbarci (), Monica Escaleras () and Charles Register
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Charles Register: Department of Economics, Florida Atlantic University

No 6004, Working Papers from Department of Economics, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University

Abstract: Traffic accidents result in 1 million deaths annually worldwide, though the burden is disproportionately felt in poorer countries. Typically, fatality rates from disease and accidents fall as countries develop. Traffic deaths, however, regularly increase with income, at least up to a threshold level, before declining. While we confirm this by analyzing 1,356 country-year observations between 1982 and 2000, our purpose is to consider the role played by public sector corruption in determining traffic fatalities. We find that such corruption, independent of income, plays a significant role in the epidemics of traffic fatalities that are common in relatively poor countries.

Keywords: Traffic fatalities; corruption; vulnerable users (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H41 I32 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2006-01, Revised 2006-07
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Published in Kyklos, Volume 56, Issue 3, pages 327-344.

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