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Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting

Barwick, Panle Jia; Li, Shanjun; Waxman, Andrew R.; Wu, Jing - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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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Citywide Effects of High-Occupancy Vehicle Restrictions : Evidence from the Elimination of ‘3-in-1’ in Jakarta

Hanna, Rema - 2017

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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Optimal Urban Transportation Policy : Evidence from Chicago

Almagro, Milena; Barbieri, Felipe; Castillo, Juan Camilo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We characterize optimal urban transportation policies in the presence of congestion and environmental externalities and evaluate their welfare and distributional effects. We present a framework of a municipal government that implements different transportation equilibria through its choice of...

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Welfare Estimates of Shifting Peak Travel

Hahn, Robert William; Metcalfe, Robert D.; Tam, Hiu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We develop novel estimates of peak and off-peak price elasticities for urban mass transit demand in San Francisco using a large natural experiment with 3.6 million trip sessions and a natural field experiment that both have exogenous price subsidies. We then estimate the welfare impacts for...

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The Political Economy of Transportation Investment

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017

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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COVID-19 and Remote Work : An Early Look at US Data

Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2020

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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Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work

Stanton, Christopher T.; Tiwari, Pratyush - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-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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Suburbanization in the United States 1970-2010

Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, residence attractiveness and bilateral commuting frictions). This methodology holds in the class of spatial models that are … characterized by a structural gravity equation for commuting. We show that the increased openness of counties to commuting is mainly … explained by reductions in bilateral commuting frictions, consistent with the expansion of the interstate highway network and …

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The Effect of Infrastructure on Worker Mobility : Evidence from High-Speed Rail Expansion in Germany

Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2018

reductions in commuting time between regions on the commuting decisions of workers and their choices regarding where to live and …

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Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York

Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

School assignment in Boston and New York City came to national attention in the 1970s as courts across the country tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps enhancing integration. Urban school transportation is...

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