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Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona - 2019

We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media … police reported accidents in a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we find that SLMO reduce traffic accidents and …

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Immigration and public spending

Böheim, René (contributor); Mayr, Karin (contributor) - 2005

We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily...

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Bobos in paradise : urban politics and the new economy

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2015

This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohème" (bobos). This takeover has been associated with greater investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport,...

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Welfare benefits of agglomeration and worker heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L. … - 2014

The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...

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Measuring the value of a statistical life : problems and prospects

Ashenfelter, Orley (contributor) - 2006

measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety …Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a … issues to a particular study of speed limits and highway safety. -- value of a statistical life ; speed limits ; safety risks …

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Illegal immigration and fiscal competition

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Pinto, Santiago M. - 2015

Reflecting recent enforcement policy activism of US states, this paper examines federal-state overlap of illegal immigration policy in a spatial context. Keeping the US-Mexico context in mind, we assume that labor from a source nation enters a host nation through bordering states. Once in the...

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Do elections affect immigration? : evidence from French municipalities

Schmutz, Benoît; Verdugo, Gregory - 2023

Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants across municipalities. In municipalities where a left- instead of right-wing mayor has been elected, the share of immigrants in the population grows faster by 1.5 p.p. within six...

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Pricing neighborhoods

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - 2023

Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers...

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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents

Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019

crimes and in this paper we focus on a very serious and widespread one, hit-and-run road accidents. In fact, it is not only … affecting the probability of apprehension and find that the likelihood of hit-and-run conditional on an accident taking place …

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New estimates of the value of a statistical life using air bag regulations as a quasi-experiment

Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012

Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...

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