cars and racism/sexism

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Thu Sep 23 11:23:07 PDT 1999


. . . Of course, I see nothing wrong with those with actual bad driving record paying higher rates.
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EPI has a paper by Dean Baker and Jim Barrett on "greening" insurance rates to mileage. Turns out mileage is well correlated with likely claims. You eliminate the discriminatory dimension and add a green one. Pretty good trade.

mbs



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