The Seattle Automobile Inspection and Maintenance Program

Newcomb, Tim M.

doi:10.1177/0193841x8601000204

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“…Owing to the linkage with registration, it is easy to detect and prosecute violators of the laws and to use legal penalties to punish car owners. A report shows that the compliance rate is around 90% (Newcomb, 1986). 2' In terms of compliance rates this program is successful.…”

Section: Type I : Auto Emissionsmentioning

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An Analysis of the U.S. Environmental Policy: A Typology of Environmental Problem for Government Action

Cha

1998

International Area Review

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The purpose of this study is to examine the selection of policy tools for environmental problems under the incremental tradition, concentrating on the regulatory role. Our aim is to propose a typology composed of political significance and detection of source. This typology implies that the problem decides its own policy tool. This argument is discussed by reviewing different types of environmental problems, and suggests that for successful enforcement, the selected policy tool is expected to match the problem. The possibility of hypothesis building on the policy's success/failure is considered. The expansion of the U.

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Section: Type I : Auto Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Analysis of the U.S. Environmental Policy: A Typology of Environmental Problem for Government Action

Cha

1998

International Area Review

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Sifting Statistical Significance From the Artifact of Regression- Discontinuity Design

Stanley

Robinson

1990

Eval Rev

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When the covariate of an evaluation study using regression analysis is falhbly measured, the statistical test of program effectiveness is biased. In programs where the target population is "below average, " the bias tends to suppress the beneficial effects of the program, while raising them in programs designed for those "above average. " The magnitude of this bias is calculated, and a correction method is derived and illustrated. In many cases, these biases will make practical differences in program assessment, lending further support to the general distrust of nonexperimental methods. Nonetheless, our approach improves the reliability of nonexperimen tal methods by correcting one potential source of their bias.

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The Florida Motor Vehicle Inspection Program

Bavon

Amankwaa

1997

Public Works Management & Policy

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In 1991, Florida implemented the Motor Vehicle Inspection Program (MVIP) mandated by the Florida Clean Outdoor Air Law, which was passed in response to federal requirements for meeting ambient air quality standards. Has the implementation of this law resulted in decreased pollution levels as predicted by proponents of this program? The authors present a quasi-experimental evaluation of this question. Using an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) intervention model, they show that the implementation of the MVIP has led to a significant decline in ozone (03) levels in some counties but no significant reductions in carbon monoxide (CO) levels in the counties where the program was implemented.

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The Seattle Automobile Inspection and Maintenance Program

Cited by 3 publications

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An Analysis of the U.S. Environmental Policy: A Typology of Environmental Problem for Government Action

An Analysis of the U.S. Environmental Policy: A Typology of Environmental Problem for Government Action

Sifting Statistical Significance From the Artifact of Regression- Discontinuity Design

The Florida Motor Vehicle Inspection Program

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