Show me the way to go home: An empirical investigation of ride-sharing and alcohol related motor vehicle fatalities

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 163-187

  Greenwood, Brad N ^a   Wattal, Sunil ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Difference in difference; Drunk driving; Natural experiment; Platforms; Ride sharing; Sharing economy; Uber; Vehicular fatalities

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; DRUNK DRIVING; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; PLATFORMS; RIDE-SHARING; SHARING ECONOMY; UBER; VEHICULAR FATALITIES;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

EID: 85016319644     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2017/41.1.08     Document Type: Conference Paper

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