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choice, road investment and suburbanization. The model simplifies urban space by dividing it into two zones (islands), center … increase in suburbanization …
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level, as well as on employment and commuting by education level. We find that the advent of a new highway access within 10 …
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Various authors, most notably Putnam (2000), have argued that low-density living reduces social capital and thus social interaction, and this argument has been used to buttress criticisms of urban sprawl. If low densities in fact reduce social interaction, then an externality arises, validating...
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We examine the effects of differences in income tax rates on commuting times within multi-state MSAs. Our theoretical … holding fixed other characteristics. We identify large effects on commuting times for affluent households and homeowners in …
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Pricing greenhouse gases is widely understood as the most efficient approach for mitigating climate change, yet distributional effects hamper political acceptance. These distributional effects are especially important in transport, the fastest growing sector for greenhouse gas emissions. Using...
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This paper analyzes subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting in an urban economics framework with two cities and … agglomeration externalities, where workers may commute within and between cities. First, commuting subsidies serve to internalize … agglomeration externalities: Intracity commuting subsidies give incentives to move to the larger city and intercity commuting …
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We study a simple model of commuting subsidies with two transport modes. City residents choose where to live and which …
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argued that the cost of commuting to work should not be deductible as commuting does not increase taxable income. The …
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We examine the effects of differences in income tax rates on commuting times within multi-state MSAs. Our theoretical … holding fixed other characteristics. We identify large effects on commuting times for affluent households and homeowners in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790166