---
_id: '15073'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:p> In this paper, we analyze the effect of light conditions on road
    accidents and estimate the long run consequences of different time regimes for
    road safety. Identification is based on variation in light conditions induced
    by differences in sunrise and sunset times across space and time. We estimate
    that darkness causes annual costs of more than £500 million in Great Britain.
    By setting daylight saving time year-round 8 percent of these costs could be saved.
    Thus, focusing solely on the short run costs related to the transition itself
    underestimates the total costs of the current time regime. </jats:p>
author:
- first_name: Christian
  full_name: Bünnings, Christian
  last_name: Bünnings
- first_name: Valentin
  full_name: Schiele, Valentin
  id: '53779'
  last_name: Schiele
citation:
  ama: 'Bünnings C, Schiele V. Spring Forward, Don’t Fall Back: The Effect of Daylight
    Saving Time on Road Safety. <i>The Review of Economics and Statistics</i>. 2021;103(1):165-176.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00873">10.1162/rest_a_00873</a>'
  apa: 'Bünnings, C., &#38; Schiele, V. (2021). Spring Forward, Don’t Fall Back: The
    Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Road Safety. <i>The Review of Economics and
    Statistics</i>, <i>103</i>(1), 165–176. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00873">https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00873</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Bünnings_Schiele_2021, title={Spring Forward, Don’t Fall Back:
    The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Road Safety}, volume={103}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00873">10.1162/rest_a_00873</a>},
    number={1}, journal={The Review of Economics and Statistics}, author={Bünnings,
    Christian and Schiele, Valentin}, year={2021}, pages={165–176} }'
  chicago: 'Bünnings, Christian, and Valentin Schiele. “Spring Forward, Don’t Fall
    Back: The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Road Safety.” <i>The Review of Economics
    and Statistics</i> 103, no. 1 (2021): 165–76. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00873">https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00873</a>.'
  ieee: 'C. Bünnings and V. Schiele, “Spring Forward, Don’t Fall Back: The Effect
    of Daylight Saving Time on Road Safety,” <i>The Review of Economics and Statistics</i>,
    vol. 103, no. 1, pp. 165–176, 2021, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00873">10.1162/rest_a_00873</a>.'
  mla: 'Bünnings, Christian, and Valentin Schiele. “Spring Forward, Don’t Fall Back:
    The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Road Safety.” <i>The Review of Economics
    and Statistics</i>, vol. 103, no. 1, 2021, pp. 165–76, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00873">10.1162/rest_a_00873</a>.'
  short: C. Bünnings, V. Schiele, The Review of Economics and Statistics 103 (2021)
    165–176.
date_created: 2019-11-21T11:50:38Z
date_updated: 2022-03-10T13:09:47Z
department:
- _id: '281'
- _id: '475'
doi: 10.1162/rest_a_00873
intvolume: '       103'
issue: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 165-176
publication: The Review of Economics and Statistics
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0034-6535
  - 1530-9142
publication_status: published
status: public
title: 'Spring Forward, Don''t Fall Back: The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Road
  Safety'
type: journal_article
user_id: '53779'
volume: 103
year: '2021'
...