Do traffic tickets reduce motor vehicle crashes?

A 2014 study published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, “Do Traffic Tickets Reduce Motor Vehicle Accidents? Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” explores data from the CIOT program in Massachusetts. The author, Dara Lee Luca of the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Missouri, analyzed the relationship between the number of CIOT citations issued and motor-vehicle crash and fatality rates.
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