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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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Optimal Public Transportation Networks : Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta
Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Gaduh, Arya; Graff, Tilman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying on interconnections as opposed to direct service. These choices, in turn, depend on individual preferences for waiting times, travel times, and transfers. We...
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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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The Social Determinants of Choice Quality : Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands
Handel, Benjamin R. - 2020
study this trade-off in the health insurance market in the Netherlands, with a specific focus on misallocation and …
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Intended and Unintended Effects of Youth Bicycle Helmet Laws
Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2010
Over 20 states have adopted laws requiring youths to wear a helmet when riding a bicycle. We confirm previous research indicating that these laws reduced fatalities and increased helmet use, but we also show that the laws significantly reduced youth bicycling. We find this result in standard...
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Cycling : An Increasingly Untouched Source of Physical and Mental Health
Rashad, Inas - 2007
associated with reduced urban sprawl and gas prices. Cycling is a form of exercise that can also be used as a mode of … sprawl and in real gasoline prices on cycling as a form of physical activity. Using bivariate probit and propensity score … methods, I show how cycling can lead to improved physical health outcomes. This is turn may carry policy implications in terms …
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Do 'All-Age' Bicycle Helmet Laws Work? Evidence from Canada
Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2018
-in-differences models and restricted area-identified public health survey data with information on cycling and helmet use for nearly 800 … younger adults, and less-educated adults. All-age helmet laws had modest effects at reducing cycling and increasing in …
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