RiskyTransport {mlogit}

Risky Transportation Choices

Description

1793 choices by 561 individuals of a transport mode at Freetwon airport

Format

A dataframe containing:

• id: individual id,

• choice: 1 for the chosen mode,

• mode: one of Helicopter,WaterTaxi, ⁠Ferry, and ⁠Hovercraft',

• cost: the generalised cost of the transport mode,

• risk: the fatality rate, numbers of death per 100,000 trips,

• weight: weights,

• seats: ,

• noise: ,

• crowdness: ,

• convloc: ,

• clientele: ,

• chid: choice situation id,

• african: yes if born in Africa, no otherwise,

• lifeExp: declared life expectancy,

• dwage: declared hourly wage,

• iwage: imputed hourly wage,

• educ: level of education, one of low and high,

• fatalism: self-ranking of the degree of fatalism,

• gender: gender, one of female and male,

• age: age,

• haveChildren: yes if the traveler has children, no otherwise,

• swim: yes if the traveler knows how to swim, 'no, otherwise.

Source

American Economic Association data archive.

References

León G, Miguel E (2017). “Risky Transportation Choices and the Value of a Statistical Life.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 9(1), 202-28. doi: 10.1257/app.20160140, https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20160140.