Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 7, 2025

Driving Under the Influence: How Music Listening Affects Driving Behaviors
Published on: March 27, 2019
Public health crisis and risky road behaviors
Yau-Huo Jimmy Shr1, Feng-An Yang1
1Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Abstract:
This study investigates how exposure to riskier environments influences risky road behaviors, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment. Utilizing administrative individual traffic violation records from Taipei, where neither mandatory lockdown nor mobility restrictions were imposed, we find that pandemic-induced risk decreased speeding violations and that the effect was transitory. However, no significant changes were observed concerning violations with a minimal risk of casualties, such as illegal parking. These findings suggest that experiencing a higher level of life-threatening risk discourages risky behaviors concerning human life but has little spillover effect on those concerning only financial costs.
Related Concept Videos
Stress Prevention and Stress Management Techniques IV
Factors Affecting Illness
For instance, risk factors are connected to illness,...
Lifestyle Factors and Health
Benefits of Physical Activity
Physical activity, whether through structured exercise or casual activities like walking, biking, or dancing, is a cornerstone of a...
Levels of Health Promotion and Illness Prevention
In primary prevention, actions taken before disease onset prevent the disease from...
Social Traps
Models of Health Promotion and Illness Prevention II
The agent-host-environment model states that disease results...

