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Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2010

Affluent towns often deliver high-quality public services to their residents. I estimate the willingness to pay to live in a high-income suburb, above and beyond the demand of wealthy neighbors, by measuring changes in housing prices across city-suburban borders as the income disparity between...

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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels

Kaiser, William - 2014

In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...

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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment

Miller, Conrad - 2018

This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … stable segregation suggests job suburbanization may have increased black-white labor market inequality. Exploiting variation … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates …

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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007

We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...

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The Making of the Modern Metropolis : Evidence from London

Heblich, Stephan - 2018

51.5 and 53.3 percent respectively, and decreases net commuting into the historical center of London by more than 300 …

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School Bus Emissions, Student Health, and Academic Performance

Austin, Wes - 2019

Diesel emissions from school buses expose children to high levels of air pollution; retrofitting bus engines can substantially reduce this exposure. Using variation from 2,656 retrofits across Georgia, we estimate effects of emissions reductions on district-level health and academic achievement....

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Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives : Theory and Evidence

Bajari, Patrick - 2010

In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading example is highway construction, where slow completion times inflict a negative externality on commuters. Recently, highway departments have introduced innovative contracting methods...

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A Tale of Two Tails : Commuting and the Fuel Price Response in Driving

Gillingham, Kenneth - 2016

The consumer price responsiveness of driving demand is central to the welfare consequences of fuel price changes. This study uses rich data covering the entire population of vehicles and consumers in Denmark to find a medium-run price elasticity of driving of -0.30. We uncover an important...

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Commuting, Migration and Local Employment Elasticities

Monte, Ferdinando - 2015

model that incorporates spatial linkages in goods markets (trade) and factor markets (commuting and migration). We show that … local employment elasticities differ substantially across U.S. counties and commuting zones in ways that are not well … explained by standard empirical controls but are captured by commuting measures. We provide independent evidence for these …

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The Effect of Infrastructure on Worker Mobility : Evidence from High-Speed Rail Expansion in Germany

Heuermann, Daniel - 2018

reductions in commuting time between regions on the commuting decisions of workers and their choices regarding where to live and …

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