Estimating the impact of the Penalty Point System on road fatalities
in Spain

Martínez-Gabaldón, Eduardo; Méndez, Ildefonso; Martínez-Pérez, Jorge Eduardo

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Estimating the impact of the Penalty Point System on road fatalities in Spain

dc.contributor.author	Martínez-Gabaldón, Eduardo
dc.contributor.author	Méndez, Ildefonso
dc.contributor.author	Martínez-Pérez, Jorge Eduardo
dc.contributor.department	Economía Aplicada
dc.coverage.spatial	España
dc.coverage.temporal	S. XXI
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-09T11:56:48Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-09T11:56:48Z
dc.date.issued	2019-11
dc.description	This is the author-accepted manuscript of an article published in Transport Policy. This version is shared under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license and is subject to the publisher’s embargo policy. The final version is available at [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.11.003].
dc.description.abstract	Traffic accidents are a major public health concern since they are the leading cause of death for those aged 15–29 years and the ninth cause of death worldwide. In this paper, we estimate the overall effect on traffic fatalities of the introduction of the Penalty Point System (PPS) in Spain in 2006, jointly with those of the publicity campaigns that went with it and the reform of the Penal Code to toughen the consequences of traffic offenses in 2007. We use a synthetic-control method that controls for differences in the distribution of control variables, changing business cycles conditions, the effect of unexpected policies or events that happen between the pre- and the post- PPS periods and the arbitrariness in the selection of the control group. We find that the introduction of the PPS and related initiatives lead to a reduction of almost 15% in traffic fatality rates in Spain during the first two years. The magnitude of the estimated effect monotonically increased over time until reaching a 40% reduction in fatality rates in 2009 and 2010.	es
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dc.identifier.citation	Transport Policy 86, 1-8
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.11.003
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 0967-070X
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1879-310X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/139120
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Elsevier	es
dc.relation	This study was funded by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Grant Number: ECO2016-75439-P; and Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Grant Number: ECO2016-77366-R.	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X18307091?via%3Dihub
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Penalty point system	es
dc.subject	Causal effects	es
dc.subject	Synthetic control-method	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::33 - Economía	es
dc.title	Estimating the impact of the Penalty Point System on road fatalities in Spain	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es