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City shape and air pollution
Gallé, Johannes - 2023
contemporary nexus between city shape and air pollution in India. I find that the compactness of a city has statistically … different compactness measures. While geographic dispersion allows for more fresh air corridors, differences in commuting …
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COVID-19, Commuting Flows, and Air Quality
Lee, Munseob; Finerman, Rachel - 2021
, South Korea experienced a 10-20% decline in commuting flows, even without government-mandated stay-at-home orders. This … paper quantifies the impact that decreased commuting flows have on PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and CO, using municipality level … commuting data. We find that a 1% decrease in commuting flows decreases air pollutants by 0.08-0.17%, after controlling for …
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Rush hours and urbanization
Seidel, Tobias; Wickerath, Jan - 2019
We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their …
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When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill : the impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015
Many governments have banned strikes in public transportation. Whether this can be justified depends on whether strikes endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the effects of public transit strikes on urban...
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Green infrastructure and air pollution: evidence from highways connecting two megacities in China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021
Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades. This paper examines the causal impact of the opening of a heavily used high speed rail line connecting two megacities in China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution....
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Congestion pricing, air pollution, and individual-level behavioral responses
Isaksen, Elisabeth T.; Johansen, Bjørn G. - 2021
This paper shows that differentiating driving costs by time of day and vehicle type help improve urban air quality, lower driving, and induce adoption of electric vehicles. By taking advantage of a congestion charge that imposed spatial and temporal variation in the cost of driving a...
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Racial disparities in the health effects from air pollution : evidence from ports
Gillingham, Kenneth; Huang, Pei - 2021
This study examines the uneven effects of air pollution from maritime ports on physical and mental health across racial groups. We exploit quasi-random variation in vessels in port from weather events far out in the ocean to estimate how port traffic influences air pollution and human health. We...
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Effects of regional meteorological and air conditions on community-acquired pneumonia - examining the interaction of individual, meteorological, and air characteristics
Brenner, Thomas; Link, Ann-Christine; Reudenbach, Christoph - CAPNETZ study group - 2022
Climate change will further increase not only the frequency but also the intensity of extreme weather events. As a result, weather conditions favouring pneumonia occurrence - suddenly warmer weather during cold seasons - can increase due to higher meteorological variability which is also linked...
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Going Fast or Going Green? Evidence from Environmental Speed Limits in Norway
Folgero, Ingrid Kristine - 2019
This paper studies the impact of speed limits on local air pollution, using a series of date specific speed limit reductions in Oslo over the 2004-2015 period. We find that lowering the speed limit from 80 to 60 km/h reduces travel speed by 5.8 km/h, but we find no effect on local air pollution....
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