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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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Driving Under the Influence of Allergies : The Effect of Seasonal Pollen on Traffic Fatalities

Danagoulian, Shooshan; Deza, Monica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Traffic fatalities are the leading cause of mortality in the United States despite being preventable. While several … policies have been introduced to improve traffic safety and their effects have been well documented, the role of transitory … health shocks or situational factors at explaining variations in fatal traffic accidents has been understudied. Exploring …

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Investment in Infrastructure and Trade : The Case of Ports

Brancaccio, Giulia; Kalouptsidi, Myrto; Papageorgiou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

infrastructure to alleviate these costs, a key policy question emerges: in a world with high volatility, what are the returns to … unveils three policy-relevant messages: (i) investing in port infrastructure can lead to substantial trade and welfare gains …

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Ride-Sharing Markets Re-Equilibrate

Hall, Jonathan; Horton, John J.; Knoepfle, Daniel T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Following Uber-initiated fare increases, drivers make more money per trip and, initially, more per hour-worked. Drivers begin to work more hours. However, this increase in hours-worked--combined with a reduction in demand from a higher fare--has a business stealing effect, with drivers spending...

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How Far Goods Travel : Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020

Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...

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More Roads or Public Transit? Insights from Measuring City-Center Accessibility

Conwell, Lucas J.; Eckert, Fabian; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We propose a theory-inspired measure of the accessibility of a city's center: the size of the surrounding area from which it can be reached within a specific time. Using publicly available optimal-routing software, we compute these "accessibility zones" for the 109 largest US and European...

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Regulating Untaxable Externalities : Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?

Jacobsen, Mark R.; Sallee, James M.; Shapiro, Joseph S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically …

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The Demand for Mobility : Evidence from an Experiment with Uber Riders

Christensen, Peter; Osman, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Optimal transportation policies depend on demand elasticities that interact across modes and vary across the population, but understanding how and why these elasticities vary has been an empirical challenge. Using an experiment with Uber in Egypt, we randomly assign large price discounts for...

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The Topography of Nations

Allen, Treb - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How does the interplay of geography and political-economic forces affect the shape of nations? This paper presents a quantitative framework for characterizing the equilibrium evolution of national boundaries in a world with a rich geography. The framework delivers simple equilibrium conditions...

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Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance

Heissel, Jennifer - 2019

We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for …

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