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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 …-state differences and time variations in gasoline taxes. Using the American Time Use Surveys for the years 2003 to 2015, we find that … higher gasoline tax rates are related with less time spent in commuting. Furthermore, higher gasoline taxes are related to a …

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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use : The Case of Transportation Policies

Zenou, Yves - 2014

We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...

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How Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore

Fesselmeyer, Eric - 2016

We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system increased the price of apartments within 0.5 km of a pre-expansion station by...

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Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field : An Experiment in Public Transportations

Dai, Zhixin - 2016

We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the field correlate. Moreover, individuals who have just...

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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests

Epstein, Gil S. - 2010

Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...

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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity

Finan, Frederico - 2011

While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure...

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The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants

Epstein, Gil S. - 2011

Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in destination countries. In this paper we present an additional reason for proposing temporary...

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Certainty and Severity of Sanctions in Classical and Behavioral Models of Deterrence : A Survey

Entorf, Horst - 2012

This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical findings on the impact of certainty and severity of punishment (and the interplay thereof) as well as underlying methodological problems, gives an overview of limitations and...

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Views Among Economists : Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?

Gordon, Roger H. - 2013

To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put together by the Chicago School of Business. Based on our analysis, we find a broad consensus on these...

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Eliciting Individual Preferences for Pension Reform

Abid Fourati, Yosr - 2010

Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper's contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data from a choice experiment to investigate individual preferences for an...

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