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Thematic Session: Climate Change and Human Capital (Streaming) Location: B008 Session Chair: R. Jisung Park, University of Pennsylvania | |
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Worker Incentives and Occupational Safety in Trucking University of Pennsylvania, United States of America We provide evidence that truck drivers' incentives moderate the relationship between extreme weather events and truck crashes. Using data on 1.4 million truck accidents across the continental United States, we first show that weather shocks increase crash risk. Icy conditions increase same day truck accident risk by 118 percent, an effect that is twice as large as that for all-vehicle accidents. We then test the effect of an electronic monitoring mandate, which increased the incentive for unsafe driving, on the ice-crash relationship. Leveraging the fact that several large trucking firms had implemented electronic monitoring prior to the mandate, we estimate a triple difference model and find that the mandate resulted in a 22 percent higher impact of ice on crashes. These findings suggest that considering workers' incentives is important to designing policies that intend to minimize occupational hazards. | |