TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2024//
TI  - The impact of daylight saving time in Mexico
JO  - Applied economics
A1  - Goodwin, Michael Benjamin
A1  - Gonzalez, Fidel
A1  - Fontenla, Matías
SP  - 22
EP  - 32
VL  - 56
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0003-6846
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2166666
ID  - ref1
ER  -