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Investment in Infrastructure and Trade : The Case of Ports
Brancaccio, Giulia; Kalouptsidi, Myrto; Papageorgiou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Transportation infrastructure is vital for the smooth functioning of international trade. Ports are a crucial gateway … novel datasets, to quantify the costs of disruptions and evaluate transportation infrastructure investment. Our analysis …
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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
Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed...
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Ride-Sharing Markets Re-Equilibrate
Hall, Jonathan; Horton, John J.; Knoepfle, Daniel T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Following Uber-initiated fare increases, drivers make more money per trip and, initially, more per hour-worked. Drivers begin to work more hours. However, this increase in hours-worked--combined with a reduction in demand from a higher fare--has a business stealing effect, with drivers spending...
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How Far Goods Travel : Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020
Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for … supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third … endogenous responses from transportation costs and supply chain linkages. Supply chains involving more countries and longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250184
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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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Improved Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Pollution and Temperature Extremes
Barwick, Panle Jia; Donaldson, Dave; Li, Shanjun; Lin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The social costs of pollution and climate change hinge critically on humans' ability to adapt. Based on transaction records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid expansion of high-speed railways (HSR) facilitates the...
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Time Savings When Working from Home
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will...
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The Economics of Cities : From Theory to Data
Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
these models can be used to estimate the strength of agglomeration forces and evaluate the impact of transportation …
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Economies of Density and Congestion in the Sharing Economy
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata; Zhang, Haimeng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The sharing economy for a wide range of goods and services is expanding across the world. To direct the benefits from sharing capital services towards small-scale producers, governments in the developing world are increasingly intervening in fast-growing mechanization rental markets. However,...
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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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