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Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Nakamura, Ryota; Albanese, Andrea; Coombes, Emma; … - 2022

This study investigates the impact of economic incentives on travel-related physical activity, leveraging the London … Congestion Charge's disincentivising of sedentary travel modes via increasing the cost of private car use within Central London … in the London Travel Demand Survey for the period 2005 2011. Using a boundary regression-discontinuity design reveals a …

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Spatial and Time Spillovers of Driving Restrictions : Causal Evidence from Lima's Pico Y Placa Policy

Salgado, Edgar; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2022

Driving restrictions are popular interventions in rapidly urbanizing developing countries. Their relatively inexpensive implementation appeals to the pressing need to reduce traffic congestion and pollution. Their effectiveness however, remains contested. Using high frequency data from the...

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The Demand for Mobility : Evidence from an Experiment with Uber Riders

Christensen, Peter; Osman, Adam - 2021

in total travel. Effects and welfare gains are larger for women, who are less mobile at baseline and perceive public …

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Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb : Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles

Wolff, Hendrik - 2014

Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which vehicular access is allowed only to vehicles that emit low...

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Driving, Dropouts, and Drive-Throughs : Mobility Restrictions and Teen Human Capital

Bostwick, Valerie; Severen, Christopher - 2023

We provide evidence that graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws, originally intended to improve public safety, impact human capital accumulation. Many teens use automobiles to access both school and employment. Because school and work decisions are interrelated, the effects of automobile-specific...

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Training Funds and the Incidence of Training : The Case of Mauritius

Kuku-Shittu, Oluyemisi - 2015

likely to train pay more in taxes than they gain in subsidies. The smallest firms receive more benefits than they pay in …

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The Effect of Health Insurance Reform : Evidence from China

He, Huajing - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey we find that this reform increases the rate of health insurance coverage significantly among workers in Non-State Owned Enterprises. The double difference...

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Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?

Howard, Larry L. - 2011

This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment...

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Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?

Duncan, Denvil - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...

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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India

Balasubramaniam, Divya - 2014

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to public goods usually aggregate different types of...

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