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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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Mobility and Congestion in Urban India
Akbar, Prottoy A. - 2018
We develop a methodology to estimate robust city level vehicular mobility indices, and apply it to 154 Indian cities using 22 million counterfactual trips measured by a web mapping service. There is wide variation in mobility across cities. An exact decomposition shows this variation is driven...
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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000
protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
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Blackouts in the Developing World : The Role of Wholesale Electricity Markets
Jha, Akshaya; Preonas, Louis; Burlig, Fiona - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
explanation using novel data from India, home to the world's third-largest electricity sector. In contrast to the developed world …
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Trade Policy as an Input to Development
Krueger, Anne O. - 1980
My topic is the question: what difference does the set of commercial policies chosen by a developing country make to its rate of economic growth? Three points are salient. First, in its present state, trade theory provides little guidance as to the role of trade policy and trade strategy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478674
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Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies
Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2019
premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons …. These lights-based metropolitan areas mirror commuting-based definitions in the United States and Brazil. In China and India … agglomeration is also skill-biased in Brazil, China, and India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479630
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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