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Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy : The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
Holland, Stephen P. - 2011
subsidize low carbon fuels. We simulate a transportation-sector cap & trade program (CAT) and three policies currently in use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461272
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Productivity in the Transportation Sector
Gordon, Robert J. - 1991
productivity (MFP) growth in the transportation industry over the postwar period, 1948-87. Official data on output and employment … data reduce the magnitude of the post-1973 productivity slowdown in transportation MFP growth from a previously reported 2 … control, and highways, do not change appreciably the pattern of postwar MFP growth in transportation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475182
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Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transportation Markets
Brancaccio, Giulia - 2020
In this paper we explore efficiency and optimal policy in decentralized transportation markets that suffer from search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481494
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The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health : Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth
McCrary, Justin - 2006
This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the school entry date. School entry policies affect female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466336
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Parochial Interests and the Centralized Provision of Local Public Goods : Evidence from Congressional Voting on Transportation Projects
Knight, Brian - 2003
transportation project funding. The empirical results provide evidence that legislators respond to common pool incentives: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468950
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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 … perceive. Consequently, national funding of transportation leads to overspending, since voters more readily perceive the upside … educated and organized urban voters. Our framework also predicts more per capita transportation spending in low-density and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454996
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Externalities of Policy-Induced Scrappage : The Case of Automotive Regulations
Forsythe, Connor R.; Jha, Akshaya; Michalek, Jeremy J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Many transportation policies indirectly affect vehicle travel and resulting externalities by inducing changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435108
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The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates : The European - U.S. Connection
Cumby, Robert E. - 1984
Casual observation indicates that in recent years real interest rates in the United States appear to have risen sharply and have remained high relative to historical standards. Many observers have claimed that these high real rates have been transmitted abroad and have lead to high real rates in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477666
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Patents as Options : Some Estimates of the Value of Holding European Patent Stocks
Pakes, Ariel - 1984
In many countries holders of patents must pay an annual renewal fee in order to keep their patents in force. This paper uses data on the proportion of patents renewed, and the renewal fees faced by, post World War II cohorts of patents in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, in conjunction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477754
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The Heights of Europeans Since 1750 : A New Source For European Economic History
Floud, Roderick - 1984
Economic and social historians have traditionally been concerned to measure changes in the income and welfare of populations in the past.Until recently, however, they have not recognized that anthropometric data, such as evidence on the average height achieved by a population at a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477779