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We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for …
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: issues and pitfalls / Colin Robinson and Eileen Marshall -- Economic regulation of transport : principles and experience …
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We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...
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The United States consumed more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD-high-income country - 30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxemburg). This paper examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S....
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's traffic police agency is to manage traffic and to enforce the traffic code. We first document that, in the capital's branch …, Kinshasa, traffic violation fines account for only 22% of the revenue of the branch. The remaining 78%, unofficial, comes from … first mandate, while not improving its ability to fulfill the second. First, the quota causes 65% of all traffic jams and …
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Replacing fossil fuels in the name of decarbonization is necessary but will be particularly difficult due to their as-yet unrivaled bundle of attributes: abundance, ubiquity, energy density, transportability and cost. There is a growing commitment to electrification as the dominant...
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of government to combat environmental problems. It considers policies for climate change and transport that can be used … abatement and the transport sector, they use quantitative techniques to compare alternative policy solutions. This quantitative … the application of local versus national or federal policies. Climate Change, Transport and Environmental Policy provides …
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We examine a statewide program that identifies police departments with large racial disparities in traffic stops and … months) reductions in the number of minorities involved in traffic stops, with no impact on stops of white drivers …. Reductions in traffic stops involving minority drivers primarily result from fewer pretextual stops (85%) for lighting violations …
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This paper examines the relationship between spot and futures prices for a broad range of commodities, including energy, precious and base metals, and agricultural commodities. In particular, we examine whether futures prices are (1) an unbiased and/or (2) accurate predictor of subsequent spot...
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Federal tax policy provides a broad array of incentives for energy investment. I review those policies and construct estimates of marginal effective tax rates for different energy capital investments as of 2007. Effective tax rates vary widely across investment classes. I then consider...
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