U.S. Child Safety Seat Laws: Are they Effective, and Who Complies?

This paper assesses the effectiveness of child safety seat laws in the United States. Over the past 35 years, these laws have steadily increased mandatory child safety seat restraint ages. We exploit state‐year level variation in the age until which children are required to ride in child safety seat...

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Volume:	36
Main Author:	Jones, Lauren E Ziebarth, Nicolas R
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	HOBOKEN WILEY Summer 2017
published in:	Journal of policy analysis and management Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 584 - 607
ORCID:	0000-0003-3562-2371 0000-0002-6236-7874
Data of publication:	Summer 2017
ISSN:	0276-8739 1520-6688
EISSN:	1520-6688
Discipline:	Government Social Sciences (General) Political Science Economics
Subjects:	Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Public Administration State Government United States Humans Parents Child Restraint Systems - statistics & numerical data Child, Preschool Infant Safety - legislation & jurisprudence Child Restraint Systems - trends Accidents, Traffic - statistics & numerical data Accidents, Traffic - mortality Child Restraint Systems - utilization Guideline Adherence - legislation & jurisprudence Child Infant, Newborn Accidents, Traffic - prevention & control Health technology assessment MISUSE FATALITIES INCREASE INJURY RISK BELT LAWS PREVENTING DEATH SAMPLE SELECTION
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2017 Web of Knowledge Web of Science MEDLINE (Ovid) PubMed MEDLINE MEDLINE MEDLINE Medline MEDLINE - Academic Database information Databases - DBIS