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Valuing Incremental Highway Capacity in a Network
Smith, V. Kerry; Klaiber, H. Allen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The importance of increments to an existing highway system depends upon their contributions to the accessibility provided by the existing network. Nearly 40 years ago, Mohring [1965] suggested this logic for planning optimal highway investment programs. He argued it could be implemented by...
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while … the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …
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The Evolving Geography of China's Industrial Production: Implications for Pollution Dynamics and Urban Quality of Life
Kahn, Matthew E.; Zheng, Siqi; Sun, Cong; Qi, Ye - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
China's rapid economic growth has been fueled by industrialization and urbanization. Given its export focus, this industrialization was spatially concentrated in the coastal eastern cities. Over the last decade, a spatial transformation has taken place leading to a deindustrialization of the...
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Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa
Robinson, James Alan; Chaves, Isaías N.; Engerman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
One of the great puzzles of Sub-Saharan African economic history is that wheeled transportation was barely used prior to the colonial period. Instead, head porterage was the main method of transportation. The consensus among historians is that this was a rational adaption to the underlying...
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Evidence of a Shift in the Short-Run Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand
Knittel, Christopher R.; Hughes, Jonathan E.; Sperling, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Understanding the sensitivity of gasoline demand to changes in prices and income has important implications for … the past several decades have changed the responsiveness of U.S. consumers to changes in gasoline prices. In this paper …, we compare the price and income elasticities of gasoline demand in two periods of similarly high prices from 1975 to 1980 …
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Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness
Levitt, Steven; Porter, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
Measurement of seat belt and air bag effectiveness is complicated by the fact that systematic data are collected only for crashes in which a fatality occurs. These data suffer from sample selection since seat belt and air bag usage influences survival rates which in turn determine whether a...
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Specialization: Pro- and Anti-globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James; Yotov, Yoto V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Specialization alters the incidence of manufacturing trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti-globalizing effects on 76 countries from 1990-2002. The structural gravity model yields measures of Constructed Home Bias (the ratio of predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local...
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Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity
Redding, Stephen James; Turner, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multi-region model of economic geography that we use to understand the general equilibrium implications of transportation...
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The Welfare Effects of Fuel Conservation Policies in the Indian Car Market
Chugh, Randy; Cropper, Maureen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Indian car market. Taxing diesel fuel to equalize diesel and petrol prices would reduce fuel consumption in the new car … consumption with respect to fuel prices imply that the CAFE standards contemplated by the Indian government would generate a …
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Pollution Control Effort at China's River Borders: When Does Free Riding Cease?
Kahn, Matthew E.; Li, Pei; Zhao, Daxuan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
At political boundaries, local leaders often have weak incentives to reduce polluting activity because the social costs are borne by downstream neighbors. This paper exploits a natural experiment set in China in which the central government changed the local political promotion criteria and...
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