@article{ref1,
title="The impact of daylight saving time in Mexico",
journal="Applied economics",
year="2024",
author="Goodwin, Michael Benjamin and Gonzalez, Fidel and Fontenla, Matías",
volume="56",
number="1",
pages="22-32",
abstract="We analyse the effect of Daylight Saving Time (DST) on automobile, acute myocardial infarctions (AMI) and crime-related fatalities in Mexico from 1998 to 2018. We rely on a regression discontinuity approach to obtain the causal impact of DST on these three causes of mortality. We find an increase in automobile fatalities of 13% −14% during the fall and spring transitions. Automobile fatalities increase 27% in urban areas during the fall transition and 18% in rural areas for spring. Crime-related fatalities increase 16% for the whole country, 13% in urban areas and 16% in rural areas in the fall transition and 2% in rural areas in the spring transition. The only impact on AMI fatalities that we find is a small increase in urban areas during the spring transition. In general, our results estimate an increase of about 100 more deaths per year due to DST, which translates into a monetary cost of about $22 million U.S. dollars per year.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-6846",
doi="10.1080/00036846.2023.2166666",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2166666"
}