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On the Effects of Covid-19 Safer-at-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution
Brodeur, Abel - 2020
In response to COVID-19, dramatic safer-at-home policies were implemented. The understanding of their impacts on social distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods with rich cellular tracking and high frequency...
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Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017
This paper estimates the effects of temporary driver's license suspensions on driving behavior. A little known rule in the German traffic penalty catalogue maintains that drivers who commit a series of speeding transgressions within 365 days should have their license suspended for one month. My...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957501
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053438
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069026
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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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Macroeconomic Impacts of Demographic Change in Scotland : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Lisenkova, Katerina - 2007
This paper combines a multi-period economic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling framework with a demographic model to analyse the macroeconomic impact of the projected demographic trends in Scotland. Demographic trends are defined by the existing fertility-mortality rates and the...
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory P. - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978164
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The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Labor Market in Neighboring Countries : Empirical Evidence from Jordan
Fakih, Ali - 2016
the steep influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan on the country's labor market since the onset of the conflict in Syria …, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey), according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Jordan and Lebanon are …) methodology is used to examine time series data from the most affected governorates in Jordan. The empirical results of Granger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000084
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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …
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