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Drunk Driving Laws and Traffic Deaths
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Description
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a panel of 48 observations from 1982 to 1988

*number of observations* : 336

*observation* : regional

*country* : United States

Usage
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::

    data(Fatality)

Format
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A dataframe containing :

state
    state ID code

year
    year

mrall
    traffic fatality rate (deaths per 10000)

beertax
    tax on case of beer

mlda
    minimum legal drinking age

jaild
    mandatory jail sentence ?

comserd
    mandatory community service ?

vmiles
    average miles per driver

unrate
    unemployment rate

perinc
    per capita personal income

Source
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Pr. Christopher J. Ruhm, Department of Economics, University of North
Carolina.

References
~~~~~~~~~~

Stock, James H. and Mark W. Watson (2003) *Introduction to
Econometrics*, Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers,
`http://wps.aw.com/aw\_stockwatsn\_economtrcs\_1 <http://wps.aw.com/aw_stockwatsn_economtrcs_1>`_,
chapter 8.

See Also
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``Index.Source``, ``Index.Economics``, ``Index.Econometrics``,
``Index.Observations``,

``Index.Time.Series``
