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This paper analyzes a bike-sharing service from both network efficiency and demand profiles perspectives. Specifically, it focuses on the BIZI service in the city of Zaragoza (Spain), which was launched in May 2008 with the aim of increasing the use of the bicycle in the city. Since then, the...
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This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system interventions implemented around the world. The objective is to highlight the main lessons learned...
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The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting … behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household …, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with …
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Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential … effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health … levels of subjective health and to lower body mass index, while commuting by walking is weakly related to both health …
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We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on...
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from girls cycling to school in groups, and changes in patriarchal social norms that proscribed female mobility outside the …
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urban employment but the transportation policy has much more drastic effects. This is because a decrease in commuting costs …
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these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …
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workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …
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commuting drop off discretely at state borders. People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the … counties or counties in the same commuting zone. Standard economic explanations, which emphasize differences in utility or …
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