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Welfare Estimates of Shifting Peak Travel

Hahn, Robert William; Metcalfe, Robert D.; Tam, Hiu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We develop novel estimates of peak and off-peak price elasticities for urban mass transit demand in San Francisco using a large natural experiment with 3.6 million trip sessions and a natural field experiment that both have exogenous price subsidies. We then estimate the welfare impacts for...

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Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting

Barwick, Panle Jia; Li, Shanjun; Waxman, Andrew R.; Wu, Jing - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We estimate an equilibrium model of residential sorting with endogenous traffic congestion to evaluate the efficiency and equity impacts of urban transportation policies. Leveraging fine-scale data on household travel diaries and housing transactions with home and work locations in Beijing, we...

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Optimal Urban Transportation Policy : Evidence from Chicago

Almagro, Milena; Barbieri, Felipe; Castillo, Juan Camilo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We characterize optimal urban transportation policies in the presence of congestion and environmental externalities and evaluate their welfare and distributional effects. We present a framework of a municipal government that implements different transportation equilibria through its choice of...

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Optimal Public Transportation Networks : Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta

Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Gaduh, Arya; Graff, Tilman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying on interconnections as opposed to direct service. These choices, in turn, depend on individual preferences for waiting times, travel times, and transfers. We...

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Location, Location, Location

Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

with jobs in different commuting zones (CZs) and different CZ-industry pairs. About half of the variation in mean wages …

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Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions Engel Curve Dynamics

Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Household carbon dioxide emissions have been an increasing function of income and distance from the city. Richer suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity and natural gas at home. In recent years, richer people in California have been more likely to buy electric vehicles and to...

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Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work

Stanton, Christopher T.; Tiwari, Pratyush - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-remote households in the same commuting zone. Remote households' higher housing expenditures arise from larger dwellings (more rooms …-average housing costs, and sorting within-commuting zone to suburban or rural areas was not economically meaningful. Using the pre …

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Consumption Access and Agglomeration : Evidence from Smartphone Data

Miyauchi, Yuhei; Nakajima, Kentaro; Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

location of service-sector establishments to measure commuting and non-commuting trips within the Greater Tokyo metropolitan … area. We show that non-commuting trips are frequent, more localized than commuting trips, strongly related to the … changes in travel patterns within the city (because of the different geography of commuting and non-commuting trips) …

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Measuring Commuting and Economic Activity inside Cities with Cell Phone Records

Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Miyauchi, Yuhei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We show how to use commuting flows to infer the spatial distribution of income within a city. A simple workplace choice … model predicts a gravity equation for commuting flows whose destination fixed effects correspond to wages. We implement this … data, yet achieves comparable predictive power. We show that hartals (transportation strikes) in Dhaka reduce commuting …

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Does Mobility Explain Why Slums Were Hit Harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?

Sheng, Jaymee; Malani, Anup; Goel, Ashish; Botla, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

SARS-CoV-2 has had a greater burden, as measured by rate of infection, in poorer communities within cities. For example, 55% of Mumbai slums residents had antibodies to COVID-19, 3.2 times the seroprevalence in non-slum areas of the city according to a sero-survey done in July 2020. One...

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