Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/170973 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10989
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The presence of a heavy truck on the road can impose an externality if accidents occur that would not have otherwise. We find each additional truck on the road increases the risk of a truck accident – but also, at an even higher rate, the risk of a car-on-car collision. Our estimates imply two percent of all car-on-car collisions can be attributed to trucks on the road. This negative externality falls on all road users through higher car insurance premiums: one truck, driving for a year in the same zip code, increases the insurance premium of each new enrollee by $0.48/year.
Subjects: 
hydraulic fracturing
trucking
externality
traffic fatalities
JEL: 
G22
H23
I18
Q58
R41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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