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UB School of Economics Ció Patxot, researcher at the UB School of Economics and member of the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team (BEAT), is participating as principal researcher at the European project TRANSHIST based on the interaction between the welfare state and the family throughout history. Developed by the International Centre of Aging and financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union, it is an initiative of the Interreg V-A Cooperation Programme, Spain-Portugal (POCTEP), 2014-2020. Other researchers are collaborating in the project: Berkeley University Graduate School professor Ronald Lee, the Autonomous University of Barcelona associated professor Guadalupe Souto, University of Hawaii professor Andrew Mason, and Pedro Luís de Oliveira Martins Pita Barros, professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Lisboa. ....
UB School of Economics Spain has recorded an increase on its number of elderly drivers due to an increase in this population cohort and, as in other countries, it will become more significant over the coming years. According to a recent study co-authored by UB School of Economics researchers Mercedes Ayuso and Miguel Santolino, based on data from 2016 provided by the Dirección General de Tráfico de España (Spanish Traffic Authority), the accident severity and the expected costs of accidents increase when the driver is over the age of 75. The article “ ” has been published in the Journal of Safety Research, 73, 37-46, 2020. The objective of this study was to quantify the probability that the accident is mild, severe or very serious depending on the severity of the injured victims. The results evidenced the link between the most serious accidents and elderly drivers, 75 years or older. “This should not be interpreted as that our elderly drivers driv ....