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14. Is Uber Good (or Bad) for Your Health?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Ride Shares and the Pandemic

Economist Michael anderson is a professor of economics at uc. Berkeley. He approached uber directly to ask for data on the number of rides aken in cities across the country. The researchers then overlaid that data with traffic fatalities in the same places. What we found is that the cities in which uber activity rose the fastest had the highest declines in trunk driving fatalities.

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