R: Risky Transportation Choices

RiskyTransport {mlogit} | R Documentation

## Risky Transportation Choices

### Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 5405

country : Sierra Leone

### Usage

    data(RiskyTransport)

### 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` itherwise

### Source

American Economic Association data archive : http://aeaweb.org/aer/.

### References

Gianmarco, Leon and Edward Miguel (2017) “Risky Transportation Choices and the Value of a Statistical Life”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 9(1), 202-28.

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