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Subways, Strikes, and Slowdowns : The Impacts of Public Transit on Traffic Congestion

Anderson, Michael L. - 2014

Public transit accounts for only 1% of U.S. passenger miles traveled but nevertheless attracts strong public support. Using a simple choice model, we predict that transit riders are likely to be individuals who commute along routes with the most severe roadway delays. These individuals' choices...

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The Making of the Modern Metropolis : Evidence from London

Heblich, Stephan - 2018

51.5 and 53.3 percent respectively, and decreases net commuting into the historical center of London by more than 300 …Using newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data for London from 1801-1921, we show that the invention of the steam … find that removing the entire railway network reduces the population and the value of land and buildings in London by up to …

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The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City

Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2020

New York City's multipronged subway system was a major disseminator – if not the principal transmission vehicle – of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020. The near shutoff of subway ridership in...

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Estimating the Gains from New Rail Transit Investment : A Machine Learning Tree Approach

Chin, Seungwoo - 2017

Urban rail transit investments are expensive and irreversible. Since people differ with respect to their demand for trips, their value of time, and the types of real estate they live in, such projects are likely to offer heterogeneous benefits to residents of a city. Using the opening of a major...

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Estimating the Price Elasticity of Demand for Subways : Evidence from Mexico

Davis, Lucas - 2022

This paper uses fare changes in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey to estimate the price elasticity of demand for urban rail transit. In two of the cases there is a significant fare increase (30%+), and in the third there is a 60-day fare holiday. Ridership responds sharply in the expected...

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Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2015

This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...

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Subways and Urban Growth : Evidence from Earth

González-Navarro, Marco - 2018

We investigate the relationship between the extent of a city's subway network, its population and its spatial configuration. For the 632 largest cities in the world we construct panel data describing population, measures of centralization calculated from lights at night data, and the extent of...

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Subways and Urban Air Pollution

Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2018

We investigate the effect of subway system openings on urban air pollution. On average, particulate concentrations are unchanged by subway openings. For cities with higher initial pollution levels, subway openings reduce particulates by 4% in the area surrounding a city center. The effect decays...

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The Use of Replacement Workers in Union Contract Negotiations : The U.S. Experience, 1980-1989

Cramton, Peter C.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2021

It is argued in many circles that a structural change occurred in U.S. collective bargaining in the 1980s. We investigate the extent to which the hiring of replacement workers can account for this change. For a sample of over 300 major strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of...

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School Bus Emissions, Student Health, and Academic Performance

Austin, Wes - 2019

Diesel emissions from school buses expose children to high levels of air pollution; retrofitting bus engines can substantially reduce this exposure. Using variation from 2,656 retrofits across Georgia, we estimate effects of emissions reductions on district-level health and academic achievement....

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