Honors Theses
Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Economics
First Advisor
Michael Belongia
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
This thesis investigates whether the implementation of a recreational marijuana law in Colorado is associated with a change in traffic fatalities. This thesis utilizes Colorado state-level data in regression analysis with a menu of dependent traffic fatality variables from the Fatality Accident Reporting System data. The only significant relationship found is between the implementation of the recreational marijuana law and marijuana-related traffic fatalities, where the law is found to be largely and positively related with marijuana-related traffic fatalities. However, this paper can draw only limited conclusions owing to the lack of a counterfactual and the short period of post-implementation data available.
Recommended Citation
Darby, Todd, "An Investigation of Recreational Marijuana Laws and Traffic Fatalities" (2019). Honors Theses. 1170.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/1170
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