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Urban Transport Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean : Challenges and Lessons Learned
Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - 2018
This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system interventions implemented around the world. The objective is to highlight the main lessons learned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910748
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Commuting Time and Household Responsibilities : Evidence Using Propensity Score Matching
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2015
The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting … behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household …, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029122
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Married with Children : A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information
Cherchye, L. - 2010
We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137791
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Cycling to School : Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013
from girls cycling to school in groups, and changes in patriarchal social norms that proscribed female mobility outside the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076169
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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use : The Case of Transportation Policies
Zenou, Yves - 2014
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/10013069026
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Commuting Time and Labour Supply : A Causal Effect?
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2011
commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation … yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on the time devoted to the labour market, with one hour of commuting … between commuting and workers behaviour, since daily labour supply should be considered in theoretical models to provide a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129091
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Spatial Versus Social Mismatch : The Strength of Weak Ties
Zenou, Yves - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129913
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The Effect of Health on Income : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
Halla, Martin - 2011
This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122678
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Altruism in Society : Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters
Mujcic, Redzo - 2013
We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected traffic intersections in the city of Brisbane, Australia. By observing real decisions of individual commuters on whether to stop (give way) for others, wefind evidence of (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093531
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The Intergenerational Causal Effect of Tax Evasion : Evidence from the Commuter Tax Allowance in Austria
Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2017
Does tax evasion run in the family? To answer this question, we study the case of the commuter tax allowance in Austria. This allowance is designed as a step function of the distance between the residence and the workplace, creating sharp discontinuities at each bracket threshold. The distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963842