The Cost of Convenience: Ridehailing and Traffic Fatalities

We thank Manuel Adelino, Marianne Bertrand, Jonathan Bonham, Eric Budish, Erik Brynjolfsson, Hans Christensen, Will Cong, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Aaron Edlin, Michael Ewens, Mara Faccio, Austen Goolsbee, Shane Greenstein, Jonathan Hall, Sharique Hasan, Susan Helper, Jessica Jeffers, Steve Kaplan, Emir Kamenica, Elisabeth Kempf, Ed Lazear, Christian Leuz, John List, Paul Oyer, David Robinson, Paola Sapienza, Rob Seamans, Scott Stern, Tom Wollmann, Luigi Zingales, and workshop participants at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Management, Duke University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Symposium, Rice University, UC Berkeley Law and Economics, and the NBER Entrepreneurship and Economics of Digitization Working Group meetings for helpful conversations, comments and suggestions. Parts of this research were conducted while Hochberg was visiting faculty at the University of Chicago. All errors are our own. Barrios gratefully acknowledges the support of the Stigler Center and the Centel Foundation/Robert P. Reuss Fund at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Corresponding Author: Yael Hochberg (hochberg@rice.edu), Rice University, 6100 Main St. MS-531, Houston, TX 77005. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.