Differential impacts of ridesharing on alcohol-related crashes by socioeconomic municipalities: rate of technology adoption matters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An emergent group of studies have examined the extent under which ridesharing may decrease alcohol-related crashes in countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Chile. Virtually all existent studies have assumed that ridesharing is equally distributed across socioeconomic groups, potentially masking differences across them. We contribute to this literature by studying how socioeconomic status at the municipal level impacts Uber's effect on alcohol-related crashes.

Methods

We use data provided by Chile's Road Safety Commission considering all alcohol-related crashes, and fatal and severe alcohol-related injuries that occurred between January 2013 and September 2013 (before Uber) and January and September 2014 (with Uber) in Santiago. We first appl

SUBMITTER: Blazquez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8569979 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature