TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gohl, Niklas
A1  - Schrauth, Philipp
T1  - JUE insight : ticket to paradise?
T2  - Journal of urban economics
N2  - This paper provides novel evidence on the impact of public transport subsidies on air pollution. We obtain causal estimates by leveraging a unique policy intervention in Germany that temporarily reduced nationwide prices for regional public transport to a monthly flat rate price of 9 Euros. Using DiD estimation strategies on air pollutant data, we show that this intervention causally reduced a benchmark air pollution index by more than eight percent and, after its termination, increased again. Our results illustrate that public transport subsidies – especially in the context of spatially constrained cities – offer a viable alternative for policymakers and city planers to improve air quality, which has been shown to crucially affect health outcomes.
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63231
SN  - 0094-1190
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -