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In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the context of a study of choices about road safety, we suspect that the same issues plague the estimation of...
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roughly 35%. In the 21 states that raised the speed limit and for whom we have complete data, the estimates suggest that about …
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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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and equity impacts of urban transportation policies. Leveraging fine-scale data on household travel diaries and housing …
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ill effects. Using high frequency data from Google Maps, we test whether high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) policies can be an …
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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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counties. We construct population-based crosswalks for 1790 through 2020, which map county-level data across U.S. censuses, as … well as from counties to congressional districts. Using official census data for congressional districts, we show that … population-based weights outperform area-based ones in terms of similarity to official data …
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research landscape is the nature and extent to which scholars generate data. Today, in nearly every field the experimental …
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This paper analyzes weekly scanner data collected for 108 groups at the county level between 2006 and 2014. The data … suggest augmenting the univariate adjustments with a panel data step that pools information across counties. Machine learning … cooking away from non-essential goods. The adjusted data also reveal changes in spending to unanticipated shocks at the local …
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Data is nonrival: a person's location history, medical records, and driving data can be used by any number of firms … should own data? What restrictions should apply to the use of data? We show that in equilibrium, firms may not adequately …, there may be large social gains to data being used broadly across firms, even in the presence of privacy considerations …
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