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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455386
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Three feet under : urban jobs, connectivity, and infrastructure : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Rentschler, Jun; Braese, Johannes; Jones, Nick; Avner, Paolo - 2019
This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African cities is impacted by flooding. It combines firm-level micro data, flood maps, and several spatial data layers across cities through a harmonized geospatial network analysis. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052029
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454996
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Search, migration, and urban land use : the case of transportation policies
Zenou, Yves - 2010
urban employment but the transportation policy has much more drastic effects. This is because a decrease in commuting costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009300803
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Delineating functional labour market areas with estimable classification stabilities
Davies, Benjamin; Maré, David Christopher - 2020
We describe an unsupervised method for delineating functional labour market areas (LMAs) in national commuting networks … classification stabilities. We demonstrate our method using historical Census commuting data from New Zealand. …
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Back to Edgeworth? : estimating the value of time using hedonic experiences
Krekel, Christian; MacKerron, George - 2023
waiting, £8.4 ($10.5) per hour of commuting, and £17.2 ($21.5) per hour of waiting during commuting (e.g. due to congestion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311979
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Commuting, wages, and household behavior
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2024
Commuting is a significant aspect of workers' daily routines and is associated with various negative outcomes …. Traditional literature often models commuting from an urban perspective, focusing on the trade-off between commuting and housing … of couples' commuting, wages, labor supply, and consumption. Using data from the PSID for the years 2011-2019, results …
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Trade effects of the New Silk Road : a gravity analysis
Baniya, Suprabha; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2019
This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002696
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Reducing environmental risks from belt and road initiative investments in transportation infrastructure
Losos, Elizabeth; Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Olander, Lydia; … - 2019
The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure,...
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