Sunday, March 1, 2020

Traffic congestion leads to domestic violence

We find that extreme traffic increases the incidence of domestic violence, a crime shown to be affected by emotional cues, but not other crimes. The result is robust to a variety of specifications and falsification tests. The results represent a lower bound of the psychological costs of traffic congestion, since most drivers stuck in traffic do not commit domestic violence but still bear some emotional costs.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272718300422 

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