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Moreno Cruz, Juan Bernardo - 2014

We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...

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Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation

Knittel, Christopher R. - 2012

The United States consumed more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD-high-income country - 30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxemburg). This paper examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S....

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Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance

Heissel, Jennifer - 2019

We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...

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Productivity in the Transportation Sector

Gordon, Robert J. - 2007

This is a comprehensive study of measurement and substantive issues that arise in determining the rate of multi factor productivity (MFP) growth in the transportation industry over the postwar period, 1948-87. Official data on output and employment are provided by two government agencies and...

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Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars

Ostrovsky, Michael - 2018

We study the interplay between autonomous transportation, carpooling, and road pricing. We discuss how improvements in these technologies, and interactions among them, will affect transportation markets. Our main results show how to achieve socially efficient outcomes in such markets, taking...

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What's Driving Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Transport Sector?

Choe, Derrick; Oettl, Alexander; Seamans, Robert - 2022

In this chapter we draw from existing literature and a range of statistics to describe economic, entrepreneurial and innovative activities in the transportation and warehousing sector of the U.S. economy. We suggest multiple avenues for future work, and argue for more research on the role of...

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Gaming in Air Pollution Data? Lessons from China

Chen, Yuyu - 2013

Protecting the environment during economic growth is a challenge facing every country. This paper focuses on two regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to...

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The Logic of Agglomeration

Duranton, Gilles - 2015

This review discusses frontier topics in economic geography as they relate to firms and agglomeration economies. We … the vast scope for enhancements of our picture of agglomeration with the new data that are emerging …

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Agglomeration : A Dynamic Approach

Hanlon, William Walker - 2015

This paper studies the sources of agglomeration economies in cities. We begin by introducing a simple dynamic spatial … large, though there can be exceptions. Thus, dynamic agglomeration appears to be driven by cross-industry effects. Once we … control for these cross-industry agglomeration effects, we find a strong negative relationship between city size and city …

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Unhappy Cities

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

There are persistent differences in self-reported subjective well-being across U.S. metropolitan areas, and residents of declining cities appear less happy than other Americans. Newer residents of these cities appear to be as unhappy as longer term residents, and yet some people continue to move...

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