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Citation |
Zick CD, Mayer RN, Snow LA. J. Consum. Policy 1986; 9(1): 25-40. |
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(Copyright © 1986, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group) |
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Abstract |
In 1972, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was given the mandate of protecting the U.S. public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products. Pooled cross-sectional time-series data from 1961 to 1982 on states' accidental home death rates are used to examine how effective the CPSC has been. This evaluation controls for several relevant historical forces (besides the CPSC) which may have contributed to fluctuations in the accidental home death rate. The results indicate that after controlling for those exogenous factors for which there are data, the CPSC reduced accidental home deaths by an estimated 17,941 over its first ten years of operation. |