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Borenstein, Severin; Rose, Nancy E. - 2021

This papers analyzes dispersion in the prices that an airline charges to different customers on the same route. Such variation in airlines fares is substantial: the expected absolute difference in fares between two of an airline's passengers on a route averages thirty-six percent of the...

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Airline Schedule Recovery after Airport Closures : Empirical Evidence Since September 11th

Rupp, Nicholas G.; DeSimone, Jeffrey S.; Holmes, George M. - 2021

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, repeated airport closures due to potential security breaches have … irregular operations. Our results indicate that while outcomes of flights scheduled during airport closures are difficult to … likelihood of continued security-related airport closings, understanding the factors that determine schedule recovery is …

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Do Airline Bankruptcies Reduce Air Service?

Borenstein, Severin; Rose, Nancy L. - 2021

The airline industry's current financial crisis has raised concerns over the ramifications of airline bankruptcies for air service and the economy. Such bankruptcies, however, nearly always occur when demand is weak, and, thus, when even healthy airlines are inclined to reduce flights. Moreover,...

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Does Quebec's Subsidized Child Care Policy Give Boys and Girls an Equal Start?

Kottelenberg, Michael - 2017

Although an increasing body of research promotes the development of universal early education and care programs, little is known about the extent to which these programs affect gender gaps in academic achievement and other developmental outcomes. Analyzing the introduction of universal...

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Amenities, Risk, and Flood Insurance Reform

Smith, V. Kerry - 2019

This paper provides the first, comprehensive evidence on the question of whether the subsidized flood insurance rates are needed to meet the affordability goal of the National Flood Insurance Program. We use IRS records at the zip code level from 2009 to 2016 to compare the real median incomes...

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Targeted or Universal Coverage? Assessing Heterogeneity in the Effects of Universal Childcare

Kottelenberg, Michael - 2016

We extend earlier research evaluating the Quebec Family Policy by providing the first evidence on the distributional effects of universal child care on two specific developmental outcomes. Our analysis uncovers substantial policy relevant heterogeneity in the estimated effect of access to...

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Breaking the Spell with Credit-Easing : Self-Confirming Credit Crises in Competitive Search Economies

Gaballo, Gaetano - 2016

only locally around equilibrium outcomes. Policy is needed because competition deters the socially optimal degree of … find it optimal to implement a targeted subsidy to induce low interest rates and, as a by-product, generate new information …

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On the Persistent Financial Losses of U.S. Airlines : A Preliminary Exploration

Borenstein, Severin - 2011

, analysts, and researchers -- including high taxes and fuel costs, weak demand, and competition from lower-cost airlines …

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An Economic Study of U.S. Aircraft Hijacking, 1960-1976

Landes, William M. - 2010

This study attempts to explain the general pattern of aircraft hijacking in the U.S. between 1361 and 1976, the reasons for the dramatic reduction in hijackings after 1972, and the costs and benefits of regulation instituted in 1973 that required mandatory preboarding searches of all passengers...

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Do Airlines in Chapter 11 Harm Their Rivals? Bankruptcy and Pricing Behavior in U.S. Airline Markets

Borenstein, Severin; Rose, Nancy L. - 2021

The behavior of firms in financial distress has attracted considerable academic and policy interest in recent years. The turmoil in the U.S. airline industry has triggered much of the public policy discussion, as some observers have argued that airlines in financial distress, particularly those...

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