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Spatial and time spillovers of driving restrictions: causal evidence from Lima's Pico Y Placa policy

Salgado, Edgar; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2021

Driving restrictions are popular interventions in rapidly urbanizing developing countries. Their relatively inexpensive implementation appeals to the pressing need to reduce traffic congestion and pollution. Their effectiveness however, remains contested. Using high frequency data from the...

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The demand for mobility: evidence from an experiment with Uber riders

Christensen, Peter; Osman, Adam - 2021

Changes in transport costs can affect mobility in ways that differ across the population, affecting the impacts of transport policies. We randomly assign large price reductions on Uber in Egypt over a 3-month period and collect comprehensive data on participant mobility using Google Timeline. A...

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The focusing and informational effects of norms on pro-social behavior

Krupka, Erin (contributor); Weber, Roberto A. (contributor) - 2007

This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a "focusing" influence, whereby norms only impact behavior when an individual's attention is drawn...

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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strong positive information treatment effect, which is increased further by informing about policy effectiveness. …

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Keep your clunker in the suburb : Low Emission Zones and adoption of green vehicles

Wolff, Hendrik - 2014

Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which vehicular access is allowed only to vehicles that emit low...

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Do economic incentives promote physical activity? : evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Nakamura, Ryota; Albanese, Andrea; Coombes, Emma; … - 2021

information provides the full-digit postcode data necessary to precisely identify the eligibility for the discount of participants …

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Driving, dropouts, and drive-throughs : mobility restrictions and teen human capital

Bostwick, Valerie; Severen, Christopher - 2023

We provide evidence that graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws, originally intended to improve public safety, impact human capital accumulation. Many teens use automobiles to access both school and employment. Because school and work decisions are interrelated, the effects of automobile-specific...

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Labour supply and commuting

Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2010

A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas...

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Health behavior and accident risk : obesity is associated with the future risk of heavy truck crashes among newly recruited commercial drivers

Anderson, Jon E.; Govada, Manjari; Steffen, Tricia K.; … - 2012

This study estimates the dose-response relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and crash risk in commercial motor vehicle operators. Intake data was collected on 744 new truck drivers who were training for their commercial driver's licenses at a school operated by the cooperating trucking...

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Does commuting affect health?

Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - 2015

This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different types of health outcomes: subjective health measures, objective health measures, health behavior, and health care utilization. Fixed effect models are estimated with British...

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