Determining automobile insurance rates

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Recently, the California insurance commissioner proposed a regulation that would reduce the ability of insurers to use geographic location in determining automobile insurance rates. The change would raise the insurance rates of rural and suburban residents, and lower the rates of urban residents. Is such a policy efficient? Is it likely to improve social welfare?

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