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How Do Airlines Cut Fuel Usage, Reducing Their Carbon Emissions?

Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...

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Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the Value of Time Using Hedonic Experiences

Krekel, Christian; MacKerron, George - 2023

their daily lives, we use a smartphone app that over eight years randomly asked a panel of 30, 936 UK residents (N = 2, 235 … waiting, £8.4 ($10.5) per hour of commuting, and £17.2 ($21.5) per hour of waiting during commuting (e.g. due to congestion …

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Quantitative assessment of the dynamics of rail freight transportation

Ginevičius, Romualdas; Sinkevičius, Gintaras - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 22 (2020) 54, pp. 579-591

Freight transportation by rail is one of the most important factors in the country's economic development; and, therefore, a comprehensive analysis of the business development has both scientific and practical significance. The basis for the analysis and conclusion of this type is a possibility...

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Transporte urbano e insuficiência de acesso a escolas no Brasil

Saraiva, Marcus; Silva, Luiz Pedro; Braga, Carlos Kauê … - 2023

Providing access to education for low-income populations is essential to reduce inequalities and promote social inclusion. Although the spatial dimension of inequalities in access to education has received attention in recent studies, there is a lack of studies that examine whether children have...

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Os impactos desiguais do congestionamento urbano no acesso a empregos

Tomasiello, Diego Bogado; Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; … - 2023

Traffic congestion is a persistent problem in large metropolises and increasingly common in medium and large cities …. Several studies have analyzed the negative effects of congestion in terms of economic productivity loss, increased … environmental pollution, and negative health consequences. However, less attention has been given to the impact of congestion on the …

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Desigualdades raciais e de renda no acesso à saúde nas cidades brasileiras

Tomasiello, Diego Bogado; Bazzo, João; Parga, João; … - 2023

The population's access to public health services contribute to reducing disease prevalence and raising life expectancy. In Brazil, the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) is guided by the principles of universality and integrality of care to all health needs. Despite the advances of the SUS, it...

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Airports' public infrastructure and sources of inefficiency

Ripoll-Zarraga, Ane Elixabete - In: Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 28 (2023) 55, pp. 176-196

external factors. Findings - Airports' infrastructure capacity and traffic are not correlated; regional airports become a …. Because airports do not compete for airlines and passengers, there are too many regional airports with little traffic …

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Effect of distance on trade under slope heterogeneity and cross-correlated effects

Lugovskyy, Oleksandr; Skiba, Alexandre - 2014

The authors argue that endogeneity of transportation costs needs to be taken into account when estimating the effect of distance on trade. Otherwise, the estimates of the distance effect may be biased and inconsistent. Endogenous transportation can introduce slope heterogeneity and spatial...

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The Effect of Railway Travel on Urban Spatial Structure

Dröes, Martijn I.; Rietveld, Piet - 2014

urbanization is higher around train stations, but the effect of railway travel on road congestion is small. By contrast, if train … stations are omnipresent there is little effect on urban spatial structure, but a considerable decrease in congestion. With … regard to the supply of train stations, these findings suggest that there is an important policy trade-off between congestion …

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; de Groot, Henri L. F. - 2014

The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...

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