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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
This study investigates the impact of economic incentives on travel-related physical activity, leveraging the London … Congestion Charge's disincentivising of sedentary travel modes via increasing the cost of private car use within Central London … in the London Travel Demand Survey for the period 2005–2011. Using a boundary regression-discontinuity design reveals a …
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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
in total travel. Effects and welfare gains are larger for women, who are less mobile at baseline and perceive public …
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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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India's approach to capital account liberalization
Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2009
In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has served the economy well in terms of reducing its...
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Do employment quotas explain the occupational choices of disadvantaged minorities in India?
Howard, Larry L.; Prakash, Nishith - 2011
This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment...
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Unequal inequalities : do progressive taxes reduce income inequality?
Duncan, Denvil; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...
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Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? : evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...
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Training funds and the incidence of training : the case of Mauritius
Kuku, Oluyemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Rojid, Sawkut; … - 2015
likely to train pay more in taxes than they gain in subsidies. The smallest firms receive more benefits than they pay in …
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