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- Title
THE DEER HUNTER: THE UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF HUNTING REGULATIONS.
- Authors
Conlin, Michael; Dickert-Conlin, Stacy; Pepper, John
- Abstract
To control the deer population, state game commissions regulate the types of deer that can be legally harvested. These regulations, however, might have an unintended effect on hunting-related accidents by changing the care hunters take when firing their rifles--a moral hazard effect--or changing the composition of hunters. Using detailed data on hunting accidents and regulations in Pennsylvania counties from 1990 to 2005, we find compelling evidence that harvesting restrictions increase the care hunters take in a manner consistent with moral hazard. Thus, these regulations have a positive safety externality.
- Subjects
GAME laws; DEER hunting; REGULATED industries; EFFECT of hunting on deer; MORAL hazard; HUNTING safety
- Publication
Review of Economics & Statistics, 2009, Vol 91, Issue 1, p178
- ISSN
0034-6535
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/rest.91.1.178