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rapid economic growth, urbanization and motorization. Mortality and respiratory diseases caused by air pollution are …
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Most highways in urban China are tolled to finance their construction. During the eight-day National Day holiday in 2012, highway tolls are waived nationwide for passenger vehicles. We use this to test highway tolls’ effect on air pollution. Using daily pollution and weather data for 98...
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nut processing factory in Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu State in India. Cashew nut industry is important at the …
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Private vehicles are a significant source of air pollution in many areas of the United States. Areas with already high levels of air pollution are required by the Clean Air Act to take steps to reduce automobile use and the associated emissions. The behavioral implications of many travel demand...
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commuting distances. The results illustrate that graduates are drawn to prospering regions with ample job opportunities …, supposedly in order to advance their careers. They choose their places of residence so as to balance their commuting distances …
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We examine commuting in a game-theoretic setting with a continuum of commuters. Commuters' home and work locations can … the repeated commuting game. …
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This paper is the first to combine data from large nationwide surveys to investigate how commuting and work hours … spent commuting replace sleep. Controlling for these effects, commuting before 5 a.m. and after 9 a.m. each increase the … likelihood of short sleep. I also find that time spent commuting and working and the prevalence of these strange commute times …
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We consider the role of the nonlinear commuting cost function in determination of the equilibrium commuting pattern … where all agents are mobile. Previous literature has considered only linear commuting cost, where in equilibrium, all … workers are indifferent about their workplace location. We show that this no longer holds for nonlinear commuting cost. The …
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Whether, and how much, increased commute costs decrease labor supply is important for transport policy, city growth, and business strategies. Yet empirical estimates are limited and biased downward due to endogenous choices of residences, workplaces, commute modes, and wages. We use the...
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This paper explores the concept of city ranking as a way to measure dynamics and complexities of urban life. These rankings have various dimensions and uses. Both the context in which these rankings are done, and their nature has changed considerably overtime. These rankings are also afflicted...
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