Traffic fatalities and public sector corruption

Anbarci, Nejat, Escaleras, Monica and Register, Charles 2006, Traffic fatalities and public sector corruption, Kyklos, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 327-344.

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Title	Traffic fatalities and public sector corruption
Author(s)	Anbarci, Nejat Escaleras, Monica Register, Charles
Journal name	Kyklos
Volume number	59
Issue number	3
Start page	327
End page	344
Total pages	18
Publisher	Wiley - Blackwell
Place of publication	Oxford, England
Publication date	2006-08
ISSN	0023-5962
Summary	Traffic accidents result in 1 million deaths annually worldwide, though the burden is disproportionately felt in poorer countries. Typically, fatality rates from disease and accidents fall as countries develop. Traffic deaths, however, regularly increase with income, at least up to a threshold level, before declining. While we confirm this by analyzing 1,356 country-year observations between 1982 and 2000, our purpose is to consider the role played by public sector corruption in determining traffic fatalities. We find that such corruption, independent of income, plays a significant role in the epidemics of traffic fatalities that are common in relatively poor countries.
Language	eng
Field of Research	140217 Transport Economics 220104 Human Rights and Justice Issues
HERDC Research category	C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice	©2006, Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30024354

Document type:	Journal Article
Collection:	School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

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