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Household Willingness to Pay for Organic Products
Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We use hedonic prices and purchase quantities to consider what can be learned about household willingness to pay for baskets of organic products and how this varies across households. We use rich scanner data on food purchases by a large number of households to compute household specific lower...
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The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US cities
Duranton, Gilles; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We investigate the relationship between interstate highways and highway vehicle kilometers traveled (vkt) in US cities. We find that vkt increases proportionately to highways and identify three important sources for this extra vkt: an increase in driving by current residents; an increase in...
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A Welfare Assessment of Revenue Management Systems
Dupuis, Nicolas; Ivaldi, Marc; Pouyet, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
availability is limited both in time and quantity, and consumers' arrival is random. This practice is particularly relevant, and …
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The Social Cost of Air Traffic Delays
de Villemeur, Etienne; Ivaldi, Marc; Quinet, Emile; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The so-called buffer time or buffer delay allows airlines to control for excessive delays by introducing extra time in … airlines are free to fix their buffer times strategically - and a situation where a social planner would control for time … schedules, and in particular the buffer time. To do so, we use a calibrated model of a network of three cities - one of them …
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Roads and Trade: Evidence from the US
Duranton, Gilles; Morrow, Peter; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We estimate the effect of interstate highways on the level and composition of trade for us cities. Highways within cities have a large effect on the weight of city exports with an elasticity of approximately 0.5. We find little effect of highways on the total value of exports. Consistent with...
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Does Supporting Passenger Railways Reduce Road Traffic Externalities?
Lalive, Rafael; Luechinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Many governments subsidize regional rail service as an alternative to road traffic. This paper assesses whether increases in service frequency reduce road traffic externalities. We exploit differences in service frequency growth by procurement mode following a railway reform in Germany to...
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Integration in the English wheat market 1770-1820
Brunt, Liam; Cannon, Edmund - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
these components across time and space using English weekly wheat price data, 1770-1820. We show that conclusions about …
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Food and Cash Transfers: Evidence from Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Battistin, Erich; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia. After controlling for the endogeneity of total expenditure and for the (unobserved) variability of prices across villages, the best fit is provided by a log-linear specification....
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The Effects of Cannabis Use on Physical and Mental Health
Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates whether cannabis use affects physical and mental health. To do so, information on prime aged individuals living in Amsterdam in 1994 is used. Dutch data offer a clear advantage in estimating the health impacts of cannabis use because the legal status of cannabis in the...
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A Flexible Test for Present Bias and Time Preferences using Land-Lease Contracts
Gautier, Pieter A; van Vuuren, Aico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
can be non-parametrically identified with contracts that specify payments that take place at various points in time in the …
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