Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223720 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13278
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the decline in traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries during the months that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders implemented in Turkey. Taking into account the decline in accidents in March and April together, these rates roughly translate to 200 traffic related deaths and 17,600 injuries avoided during the months that stay-at-home orders were in place. The Difference in Difference estimates that exploit variation in quarantine orders among small cities, I also show that stricter rules in April are responsible for the decline of accidents with death or injury by 35 percent, death by 72 percent and injuries by 19 percent.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
safer-at-home
lockdowns
traffic accidents
fatality
injury
Turkey
JEL: 
P48
Q53
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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