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Public Transit Bus Procurement : The Role of Energy Prices, Regulation and Federal Subsidies
Li, Shanjun - 2014
purchasing buses primarily from a few domestic bus makers. Unlike private vehicles, the fuel economy of public buses is … irresponsive to fuel price changes. To understand this finding, we build a model of bus fleet management decisions of local transit … agencies that yields testable hypotheses. Our empirical analysis of bus fleet turnover and capital investment suggests that …
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Gender-Specific Transportation Costs and Female Time Use : Evidence from India's Pink Slip Program
Chen, Yutong; Cosar, Kerem; Ghose, Devaki; Mahendru, Shirish - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a … bus expenses and time saved on travel. Skilled employed women increase labor supply, while low-skill married women shift …
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Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2010
The geographical location of economic activity within the United States has important implications for carbon mitigation. If households clustered in California's cities rather than in more humid southern cities such as Memphis and Houston, then the average household carbon footprint would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462525
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Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment : New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2007
The spatial mismatch hypothesis posits that employment decentralization isolated urban blacks from work opportunities. This paper focuses on one large employer that has remained in the central city over the twentieth century - the U.S. Postal Service. We find that blacks substitute towards...
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A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?
Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Lindeman, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies the impacts of work-from-home (WFH) in the housing market from both intercity and intracity perspectives. Our results confirm the theoretical prediction that WFH puts downward pressure on housing prices and rents in high-productivity counties, a result of workers starting to...
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Do College-Prep Programs Improve Long-Term Outcomes?
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2012
This paper presents an analysis of the longer-run effects of a college-preparatory program implemented in inner-city schools that provided teacher training in addition to payments to eleventh- and twelfth- grade students and their teachers for passing scores on Advanced Placement (AP) exams....
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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
comes at the cost of less green space, more congestion, and worse health and pollution externalities …
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Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance
Heissel, Jennifer - 2019
We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...
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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics
Cruz, Juan Moreno - 2013
We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459753
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Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation
Knittel, Christopher R. - 2012
The United States consumed more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD-high-income country - 30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxemburg). This paper examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S....
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