title: Association between economic fluctuations and road mortality in OECD countries.
abstract: Using longitudinal data from 32 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries (1970-2010), this article investigates association between annual variations in road mortality and the economic fluctuations. Two regression models (fixed-effects and random-coefficients) were adopted for estimation. The cross-country data analyses suggested that road mortality is pro-cyclical and that the cyclicality is symmetric. Based on data from 32 OECD countries, an increase of on average 1% in economic growth is associated with a 1.1% increase in road mortality, and vice versa.
authors.affiliation: Flinders Health Economics Group, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Gang.Chen@flinders.edu.au chengang1029@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality*; D057217:Economic Development / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D057172:Economic Recession / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004467:Economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D066150:Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*