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Gibson, John - 2011

Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure these costs outside of a few spatially limited case studies. In this paper, we apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to validated national election survey data from New...

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Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life : Problems and Prospects

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2006

Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety. This paper demonstrates the widespread use of this...

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Bright Investments : Measuring the Impact of Transport Infrastructure Using Luminosity Data in Haiti

Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2019

This paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, using satellite night-light luminosity as a proxy measure. Our identification strategy exploits the differential timing of rehabilitation projects across various road segments of the primary...

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Green Commuting and Gasoline Taxes in the United States

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2019

This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by private car, public transport, or with other physical modes of transport. Our identification strategy relies on both between-state differences and time variations in gasoline taxes....

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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 … investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport, with adverse effects on commuting time. The model allows us to … and have been replaced by service workers is studied. In such an equilibrium urban amenities are at their maximum and …

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen N. - 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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Did Cheaper Flights Change the Direction of Science?

Catalini, Christian - 2016

We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest Airlines enters a new route, scientific collaboration increases by 50%, an effect that is...

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The Effect of Diesel Tax Rates on the Daily Commuting of Us Workers : An Effective Instrument to Promote Sustainable Mobility?

Belloc, Ignacio; Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, … - 2022

modes of transport such as public transport and walking. This relationship is not homogeneous in the urban dimension, as the … effects on total commuting time and the percentage of commuting by public transport is present in urban areas only. In a …

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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 …

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How Do Airlines Cut Fuel Usage, Reducing Their Carbon Emissions?

Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...

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