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Ossokina, Ioulia; van Ommeren, Jos; van Mourik, Henk - 2022

Highway construction occurs nowadays mainly through widening of ex- isting roads rather than building new roads. This paper documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using longitudinal microdata from highway detector loops in the...

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Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam

Ostermeijer, Francis; Koster, Hans RA; Nunes, Leonardo; … - 2021

We examine the eff ect of citywide parking policy on parking and traffic demand. Using a large increase in on-street parking prices for the city of Amsterdam, we show that the policy caused a substantial drop in on-street parking demand, which is not off set by an increase in off -street demand....

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Voluntary contributing in a neighborhood public good game: An experimental study

Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Güth, Werner; Schosser, Stephan - 2010

In repeated Public Good Games contributions might be influenced by different motives. The variety of motives for deciding between (more or less) free-riding probably explains the seemingly endless tradition of theoretical and experimental studies of repeated Public Good Games. To more clearly...

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Neighborhood weight matrix in a spatial-quantile real estate modeling environment: Evidence from Brazil

Furtado, Bernardo; Van Oort, Frank - 2010

This paper analysis two central influences on real estate urban market: (a) neighborhood as cognitively …. Firstly, a neighborhood spatial matrix is proposed and compared to regularly used matrices and, secondly, a spatial …. Results also demonstrated that using information of neighborhood identity can optimize the understanding of city's complex …

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The Productive City Needs both - localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015

, positively contribute to productivity of firms. While localization economies appear to be bound to the immediate neighborhood …

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Do Neighbors Help Finding a Job? Social Networks and Labor Market Outcomes After Plant Closures

Jahn, Elke J.; Neugart, Michael - 2017

neighborhood employment rate increases the probability of having a job six months after displacement by 0.9 percentage points. The … neighborhood effect seems to be driven not by social norms but by information transmission at the neighborhood level, and …

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Evaluation of building analysis approaches as a basis for the energy improvement of city districts

Mayer, Zoe; Volk, Rebekka; Schultmann, Frank - 2021

Municipalities in Germany develop policy plans referred to as 'Energetische Quartierskonzepte' (EQ, pl. EQs) to lower and decarbonize the energy consumption of existing buildings in whole city districts. These EQs describe the status-quo, a strategy, and measures for the energy-related...

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Does Money Strengthen Our Social Ties? Longitudinal Evidence of Lottery Winners

Costa-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2021

We study the effect of lottery wins on social ties and support network in the United Kingdom. On average, we find that winning more in the lottery increases the probability of meeting friends on most days, which is consistent with the complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite...

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GIS-based compactness measurement of urban form at neighborhood scale: The case of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rahman, Md Hamidur; Islam, Md Hedaetul; Neema, Meher Nigar - In: Journal of Urban Management 11 (2022) 1, pp. 6-22

considerable research gap exists in studying compactness at the neighborhood scale, especially in urban areas from a developing … Compactness Index (CCI) based on a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach. Study results classified four neighborhood as … low compact, three as moderately compact, and one as high compact neighborhood. Travel behavior analysis through modal …

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Reciprocity in locating contributions: Experiments on the neighborhood public good game

Berninghaus, Siegfried; Güth, Werner; Schosser, Stephan - In: Games 4 (2013) 2, pp. 144-162

location choices in addition to making contributions? It is more realistic to rely on an intuitive neighborhood model for …

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