In this paper, we estimate the effect on housing prices of the expansion of the Vancouver SkyTrain rapid transit network during the period 2001-11. We extend the canonical residential sorting equilibrium framework to include commuting time in the household utility function. We estimate household...

We analyze the public transit tax credit (PTTC) introduced by the Canadian federal government in 2006. Using disaggregate microdata from the 2006 Census and 2011 National Household Survey, we apply a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference method to isolate the causal impact of the policy on...