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Air pollution can lead to traffic accidents either by reducing the road visibility or impacting the driver’s health and cognitive abilities. The objective of this paper is to explore this relationship between air pollution which is measured by PM2.5 and traffic accident which is measured by...
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commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability of self-employment decreases with "expected" commuting time. We use … metropolitan areas in the US, focusing on the relationship between commuting time and the probability of self-employment. Our … empirical results show that the probability of self-employment is negatively related to the "expected" commuting time, giving …
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relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly … concentrated in metropolitan cores, and that earnings increase with "expected" commuting time, which gives empirical support to our … pattern of commuting and the employees-to-unemployed rate, although we find higher wages in comparatively crowded states …
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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s proposal to make the United States a “world leader” in high‐​speed rail would add more than $4 trillion to the federal debt for construction of new rail lines plus tens of billions of dollars of annual deficit spending to subsidize operating...
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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between potential worker supply, measured through sex ratios, and commuting … times in the United States. Using the American Time Use Survey 2003-2014, we analyze the relationship between commuting … commuting times of both male and female workers. Furthermore, this result applies to both private and public sector employees …
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The time that workers spend commuting to and from work has increased in recent decades in many developed economies …. However, most research on the topic has ignored how a couple’s commuting behaviors are related. This paper analyzes how … husband and wife commuting behaviors respond to job change in the United States. Using household data from the Panel Study of …
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This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid … conditions in the US, the gender differences among them in the time devoted to commuting to/from work can be interpreted as … ancestry may reduce the gender commuting gap of parents. Specifically, an increase of 1 standard deviation in the GGI increases …
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In this paper, we propose a new spatial framework to model excess commuting of workers and we show empirical … their commuting time, employees do not minimize their commuting time because they lack full information, and thus the … difference between the time devoted to commuting by self-employed workers and employees is modeled as wasteful commuting (i …
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Disparities in cross-city pandemic severity during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic remain poorly understood. This paper uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i)...
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