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Water Infrastructure and Health in U.S. Cities
Beach, Brian - 2023
Between 1900 and 1930 typhoid fever and other waterborne diseases were largely eradicated from U.S. cities. This achievement required a mix of technological, scientific, economic, and bureaucratic innovations. This article examines how the interaction of those forces influenced water and...
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How Airline Markets Work...Or Do They? Regulatory Reform in the Airline Industry
Borenstein, Severin - 2007
) possible market power of dominant airlines, and (c) congestion and investment shortfall in the airport and air traffic …
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Fear of Flying? Economic Analysis of Airline Safety
Rose, Nancy L. - 2022
The safety of the commercial airline industry has attracted considerable public attention and debate since economic deregulation of the industry in 1978. These concerns have energized economic research on three aspects of airline safety. First, has the level of airline safety declined since...
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Airports and Urban Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
While significant work has been done to examine the determinants of regional development, there is little evidence on the contribution of air services toward this outcome. This paper exploits the unexpected market changes induced by the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act to bring new evidence on 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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Railroads of the Raj : Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure
Donaldson, Dave - 2010
How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new light on these questions, this paper uses archival data from colonial India to investigate the impact of India's vast railroad network. Guided by four predictions from a general...
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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing
Zheng, Siqi - 2011
In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...
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Choosing Size of Government Under Ambiguity : Infrastructure Spending and Income Taxation
Manski, Charles F. - 2012
Attempting to shed light on the optimal size of government, economists have analyzed planning problems that specify a set of feasible taxation-spending policies and a social welfare function. The analysis characterizes the optimal policy choice of a planner who knows the welfare achieved by each...
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Roads to Prosperity or Bridges to Nowhere? Theory and Evidence on the Impact of Public Infrastructure Investment
Leduc, Sylvain - 2012
We examine the dynamic macroeconomic effects of public infrastructure investment both theoretically and empirically, using a novel data set we compiled on various highway spending measures. Relying on the institutional design of federal grant distributions among states, we construct a measure of...
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