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Climate policy instruments in the transportation sector like fuel economy standards (CAFE) and fuel taxes not only affect households' vehicle choice, but also the urban form in the long run. We introduce household level vehicle choice into the urban economic monocentric city model and run...
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Focusing on travel survey data from Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of automobile travel, with the specific aim of quantifying the effects of fuel prices and fuel economy. The analysis is predicated on the notion that car mileage is a two-stage decision process, comprising the...
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This paper measures the incidence of a carbon tax on gasoline using current income and two measures of lifetime income … to rank households. Our results suggest that carbon taxes on gasoline are more regressive when annual income is used as a … the gasoline tax burden is likely to be modest varying by less than one-half of a percentage point with little fluctuation …
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consumption of energy for personal transport, as higher gasoline taxes are related to a greater use of "green" modes of transport …This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by …-state differences and time variations in gasoline taxes. Using the American Time Use Surveys for the years 2003 to 2015, we find that …
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consumption of gasoline for private automobile use. Our use of household-level data on gasoline expenditures allows us to control … reduced gasoline consumption by 8%. We find that households residing in Vancouver and other cities responded to the carbon tax … most conservative lower bound estimate suggests that a 5 cent per litre carbon tax reduced gasoline consumption by 5% …
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responsiveness and tax incidence after the introduction of two new gasoline taxes in Alberta if: 1) an increase in the generic excise …
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