TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Carrieri, Vincenzo
AU  - Davillas, Apostolos
AU  - Oliveira, Victor Hugo de
        TI  - On the Road to Equity: Examining Income-Related Inequalities in Ownership of Safer Vehicles
        PY  - 2023/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16049
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16049
        AB  - Using administrative DVLA data matched with micro-data from Understanding Society – the UK Household Longitudinal Study we estimate income-related inequalities in ownership of vehicles with a set of safety features and we apply a regression-based decomposition method for rank-dependent inequality measures to estimate the source of inequalities. 
We find systematic pro-rich inequalities in ownership of passively safer vehicles that are almost entirely explained by the characteristics of the vehicles, mainly their price and year of manufacture. A wide range of variables measured at the household level including demographics, risk aversion and time preference proxies, personality traits, cognitive ability, and education plays a much less pronounced and, in most cases, non-statistically significant contribution to overall inequality. These findings reveal inequity in access to passively safer vehicles with potential effects on the socio-economic gap in road-traffic injuries and mortality rates, requiring regulatory intervention.
        KW  - income inequalities
KW  - car's safety
KW  - concentration indexes
KW  - United Kingdom
        ER  -