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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921535
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Optimal Lockdown in a Commuting Network
Fajgelbaum, Pablo - 2020
We study optimal dynamic lockdowns against Covid-19 within a commuting network. Our framework integrates canonical … districts before gradual relaxation, while in Seoul it imposes low temporal but large spatial variation. Actual commuting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829786
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Covid-19 and Remote Work : An Early Look at Us Data
Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2020
now working from home, including 35.2% who report they were commuting and recently switched to working from home. In … between the fraction in a state still commuting to work and the fraction working from home. We find that the share of people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831286
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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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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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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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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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Driving to Opportunity : Local Rents, Wages, Commuting Costs and Sub-Metropolitan Quality of Life
Albouy, David; Lue, Bert - 2021
We examine variation in local wage levels, housing costs, and commuting costs for 2071 areas covering the United States …
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