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A Comprehensive GIS Database for China's Surface Transport Network with Implications for Transport and Socioeconomics Research

Davis, Steven J.; Qian, Meijun; Zeng, Wen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

the database and its construction, we characterize the development of China's surface transport network. Overall network …, account for half the increase in network length. The average distance between county centroids and transport access points …

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Valuing Policy Characteristics and New Products using a Simple Linear Program

Banzhaf, H. Spencer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The Random Utility Model (RUM) is a workhorse model for valuing new products or changes in public goods. But RUMs have been faulted along two lines. First, for including idiosyncratic errors that imply unreasonably high values for new alternatives and unrealistic substitution patterns. Second,...

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Identification and Estimation of Discrete Choice Demand Models when Observed and Unobserved Characteristics are Correlated

Petrin, Amil; Ponder, Mark; Seo, Boyoung - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The standard Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995) (BLP) approach to estimation of demand and supply parameters assumes that the product characteristic observed by consumers and producers but not the researcher is conditionally mean independent of observed characteristics. We extend BLP to allow...

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Partial Identification of Treatment-Effect Distributions with Count-Valued Outcomes

Mullahy, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

With count-valued outcomes y in {0,1,...,M} identification and estimation of average treatment effects raise no special considerations beyond those involved in the continuous-outcome case. If partial identification of the distribution of treatment effects is of interest, however, count-valued...

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Nonparametric Estimation of Demand with Switching Costs : the Case of Habitual Brand Loyalty

Kong, Xinyao; Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Daljord, Øystein - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study habitual brand loyalty, one of the earliest empirically-studied forms of switching costs and a classic source of structural state-dependence in consumer demand. Auxiliary instruments and economically-motivated restrictions can tighten nonparametric bounds on the extent of brand loyalty...

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Distributed Ledgers and Secure Multi-Party Computation for Financial Reporting and Auditing

Cao, Sean Shun; Cong, Lin William; Yang, Baozhong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

, we analyze firm misreporting, auditor monitoring and competition, and regulatory policy in a unified model. A federated …

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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models in Continuous Time with an Application to Retail Competition

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2012

This paper develops a dynamic model of retail competition and uses it to study the impact of the expansion of a new …

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Using Information to Curb Racial Discrimination

Knittel, Christopher R.; MacKenzie, Donald; Namazu, Michiko - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

services. Prior work by Ge et al. (2020) found that Uber drivers are two times more likely to cancel a ride if the passenger … Uber platform app reduce racial discrimination. Within the standard Uber app, drivers see only the passenger's rating … before accepting a ride. Once they accept the ride, they see the name of the passenger. In the first intervention, we …

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Ridesharing and Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Lennon, Conor; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Teltser, Keith F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine whether ridesharing provides a meaningful transportation alternative for those who require ongoing healthcare. Specifically, we combine variation in UberX entry across the U.S. with the Treatment Episode Data Set to estimate the effect of ridesharing on admissions to substance use...

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AI, Skill, and Productivity : The Case of Taxi Drivers

Kanazawa, Kyogo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study assists drivers with finding customers by suggesting routes along which the demand is predicted to be high. We find that AI improves drivers' productivity by shortening the...

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