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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2000

More than 17 percent of households in American central cities live in poverty; in American suburbs, just 7.4 percent of households live in poverty. The income elasticity of demand for land is too low for urban poverty to be the result of wealthy individuals' wanting to live where land is cheap...

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Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Deaths : Seeking Economic Roots with Census data

McLaren, John - 2020

This note seeks the socioeconomic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using county-level mortality, economic, and demographic data from 3,140 counties. For all minorities, the minority's population share is strongly correlated with total COVID-19 deaths. For Hispanic/Latino and...

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Public Transit Bus Procurement : The Role of Energy Prices, Regulation and Federal Subsidies

Li, Shanjun - 2014

The U.S. public transit system represents a multi-billion dollar industry that provides essential transit services to millions of urban residents. We study the market for new transit buses that features a set of non-profit transit agencies purchasing buses primarily from a few domestic bus...

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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics

Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Urban public transit agencies spend billions of dollars each year on workers, durable capital and energy to supply transportation services. During a time of rising concern about climate change, the urban public transit sector has not significantly reduced its carbon footprint. Using data for the...

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More Roads or Public Transit? Insights from Measuring City-Center Accessibility

Conwell, Lucas J.; Eckert, Fabian; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We propose a theory-inspired measure of the accessibility of a city's center: the size of the surrounding area from … "accessibility zones" for the 109 largest US and European cities, separately for cars and public transit commutes. Compared with … European cities, US cities are half as accessible via public transit and twice as accessible via cars. Car accessibility zones …

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Externalities of Policy-Induced Scrappage : The Case of Automotive Regulations

Forsythe, Connor R.; Jha, Akshaya; Michalek, Jeremy J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Many transportation policies indirectly affect vehicle travel and resulting externalities by inducing changes in vehicle scrappage rates. We leverage the staggered removal of state-level safety inspection programs across the United States within an instrumental variables (IV) framework to...

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