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We estimate an equilibrium model of residential sorting with endogenous traffic congestion to evaluate the efficiency and equity impacts of urban transportation policies. Leveraging fine-scale data on household travel diaries and housing transactions with home and work locations in Beijing, we...
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In cities worldwide, the widespread use of single occupancy cars often leads to traffic congestion and its associated ill effects. Using high frequency data from Google Maps, we test whether high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) policies can be an effective tool to combat congestion. Using the unexpected...
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Will politics lead to over-building or under-building of transportation projects? In this paper, we develop a model of infrastructure policy in which politicians overdo things that have hidden costs and underperform tasks whose costs voters readily perceive. Consequently, national funding of...
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their counterfactual implications. Applying our methodology to US Commuting Zones, we find that difference …
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Diesel emissions from school buses expose children to high levels of air pollution; retrofitting bus engines can substantially reduce this exposure. Using variation from 2,656 retrofits across Georgia, we estimate effects of emissions reductions on district-level health and academic achievement....
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evidence on the role of these commuting flows in supporting such concentrations of economic activity. Steam railways … buildings in Greater London by 20 percent or more, and brings down commuting into the City of London from more than 370,000 to …
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now working from home, including 35.2% who report they were commuting and recently switched to working from home. In … between the fraction in a state still commuting to work and the fraction working from home. We find that the share of people …
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We study optimal dynamic lockdowns against Covid-19 within a commuting network. Our framework integrates canonical … districts before gradual relaxation, while in Seoul it imposes low temporal but large spatial variation. Actual commuting …
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-remote households in the same commuting zone. Remote households' higher housing expenditures arise from larger dwellings (more rooms …-average housing costs, and sorting within-commuting zone to suburban or rural areas was not economically meaningful. Using the pre …
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location of service-sector establishments to measure commuting and non-commuting trips within the Greater Tokyo metropolitan … area. We show that non-commuting trips are frequent, more localized than commuting trips, strongly related to the … changes in travel patterns within the city (because of the different geography of commuting and non-commuting trips) …
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