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Airline Mitigation of Propagated Delays : Theory and Empirics on the Choice of Schedule Buffers

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2019

This paper presents an extensive theoretical and empirical analysis of the choice of schedule buffers by airlines. With airline delays a continuing problem around the world, such an under-taking is valuable, and its lessons extend to other passenger transportation sectors. One useful lesson from...

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Airline Schedule Buffers and Flight Delays : A Discrete Model

Czerny, Achim Ingo - 2020

This paper revisits the airline schedule-buffer choice problem analyzed by Brueckner, Czerny and Gaggero (2020) using a simpler model where the random shocks influencing flight times are discrete rather than continuous. The analysis yields closed-form solutions for the flight and ground buffers...

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How Much Violence Does Football Hooliganism Cause?

Fabel, Marc G.; Rainer, Helmut - 2022

explain sports-related violence in the United States, but can be accommodated by social identity explanations of football …

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Prices, Schedules, and Passenger Welfare in Multi-Service Transportation Systems

de Villemeur, Etienne Billette - 2019

We consider a multi-service transportation system in which passengers are heterogeneous along two dimensions, namely ideal departure time and value of time, leading to both horizontal and vertical differentiation. We investigate the behavior of passengers, and assess how service pricing and...

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Exchange Rate Elasticities of International Tourism and the Role of Dominant Currency Pricing

Ding, Ding; Timmer, Yannick - 2022

We estimate exchange rate elasticities of international tourism. We show that, in addition to the bilateral exchange … rate, the exchange rate between the tourism origin country vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar is an important driver of tourism … flows, indicating a strong role of U.S. dollar pricing. The U.S. dollar exchange rate is more important for tourism …

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Types of Contact : A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration

Lowe, Matt - 2020

I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...

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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity

Bijgaart, Inge van den; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021

Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...

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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2021

opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school … athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of … this legislation. Girls' sports participation rose dramatically both following the enactment of Title IX and subsequent to …

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Sports Clubs and Populism : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from German Cities

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also … vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are … with higher sports club membership rates in the wake of marginally promoted soccer teams. The populist momentum is however …

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Does Crowd Support Drive the Home Advantage in Professional Soccer? Evidence from German Ghost Games During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Fischer, Kai - 2020

This paper examines the relation between crowd support and home advantage in professional football in making use of a unique “natural experiment” induced by restrictions due to the Corona pandemic: so-called ghost games in the top three German football divisions during the 2019/2020 season....

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