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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics
Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Urban public transit agencies spend billions of dollars each year on workers, durable capital and energy to supply transportation services. During a time of rising concern about climate change, the urban public transit sector has not significantly reduced its carbon footprint. Using data for the...
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Public Transit Bus Procurement : The Role of Energy Prices, Regulation and Federal Subsidies
Li, Shanjun - 2014
The U.S. public transit system represents a multi-billion dollar industry that provides essential transit services to millions of urban residents. We study the market for new transit buses that features a set of non-profit transit agencies purchasing buses primarily from a few domestic bus...
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School Bus Emissions, Student Health, and Academic Performance
Austin, Wes - 2019
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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Intermediated Trade
Antràs, Pol - 2010
This paper develops a simple model of international trade with intermediation. We consider an economy with two islands and two types of agents, farmers and traders. Farmers can produce two goods, but in order to sell these goods in centralized (Walrasian) markets, they need to be matched with a...
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Colonialism and Modern Income -- Islands as Natural Experiments
Feyrer, James - 2006
related to the island's GDP per capita and negatively related to infant mortality. This basic relationship is also found to …
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Optimal Public Transportation Networks : Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta
Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Gaduh, Arya; Graff, Tilman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying on interconnections as opposed to direct service. These choices, in turn, depend on individual preferences for waiting times, travel times, and transfers. We...
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An Integrated Model of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion
Arnott, Richard - 2005
This paper presents a downtown parking model that integrates traffic congestion and saturated on-street parking. We … assume that the stock of cars cruising for parking adds to traffic congestion. Two major results come out from the model, one … of which is robust. The robust one is that, whether or not the amount of on-street parking is optimal, it is efficient to …
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Forgetting and Heterogeneity in Task Delay : Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients
Heffetz, Ori - 2016
We study response behavior of New York City parking-ticket recipients by analyzing administrative data on 6.6 million …
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What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output
Beuermann, Diether - 2018
Is a school's impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value school impacts on tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we exploit quasi-random school assignments and data from Trinidad and Tobago. We construct...
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Can Higher-Achieving Peers Explain the Benefits to Attending Selective Schools? : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010
Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I credibly estimate both (1) the effect of attending schools with higher-achieving peers, and (2) the direct effect of short-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same...
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