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Mapping educational disparities in life-cycle consumption

Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022

changes in disposable income around the country's financial crisis in 2008, to plot the life-cycle path of consumption and … income for different education groups and to estimate the level of consumption smoothing. We split households into three … educated engage in more consumption smoothing than those without a university degree. We also construct a measure for marginal …

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Scarcity and consumption priorities

Dahan, Momi; Sayag, Doron - 2023

This paper focuses on whether households facing economic scarcity tend to change consumption priorities as measured by … feast-related goods, indicating a "feast and famine" consumption strategy. Nevertheless, spending on food with label claims …

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Subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Wrede, Matthias (contributor) - 2008

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Urban congestion charging : theory, practice and environmental consequences

Santos, Georgina; Newbery, David M. G. - 2001

The theory of road pricing developed for single links suggests time andlocation varying charges equal to the marginal congestion cost at the efficientlevel of traffic. The second-best network counterpart is derived, but would beinfeasible to implement. Cordon tolls are feasible, and their...

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Parking and urban form

Brueckner, Jan K.; Franco, Sofia F. - 2015

This paper analyzes the provision of residential parking in a monocentric city, with the ultimate goal of appraising the desirability and effects of regulations such as a minimum-parking requirement (MPR) per dwelling. The analysis considers three different regimes for provision of parking...

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Cordon tolling in a city with congested bridges

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2014

This paper analyzes cordon tolling using a simple model where space is discrete rather than continuous, with commuting costs incurred only on two congested bridges. The first-best regime requires tolls on both bridges, whereas only the inner bridge is tolled under the cordon-toll regime. While...

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Efficiency of decentralized road investment and pricing in a multi-jurisdictional city with spillovers

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2013

This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity is financed by budget-balancing user fees,...

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Public transport and urban pollution

Borck, Rainald - 2017

The paper studies the effect of public transport policies on urban pollution. It uses a quantitative equilibrium model with residential choice and mode choice. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters are calibrated to replicate key variables for American...

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Welfare losses of road congestion

Russo, Antonio; Adler, Martin W; Liberini, Federica; … - 2019 - This version: May 2019

We estimate the marginal external congestion cost of motor-vehicle travel for Rome, Italy, using a methodology that accounts for hypercongestion (a situation where congestion decreases a road's throughput). We show that the external cost - even when roads are not hypercongested - is substantial,...

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The congestion relief benefit of public transit : evidence from Rome

Russo, Antonio; Adler, Martin W; Liberini, Federica; … - 2019 - This version: May 2019

We estimate the effect of public transport supply on travel times of motor-vehicle and bus users in Rome, Italy. We apply a quasi-experimental methodology exploiting hourly information on public transport service reductions during strikes. We find that a 10 percent reduction in public transit...

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