TY  - RPRT
A1  - Gohl, Niklas
A1  - Schrauth, Philipp
T1  - Ticket to Paradise?
BT  - The Effect of a Public Transport Subsidy on Air Quality
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
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. Us-ing DiD estimation strategies on air pollutant data, we show that this intervention causally reduced a benchmark air pollution index by more than six percent. Our results illustrate that public transport subsidies – especially in the context of spatially constrained cities – offer a viable alterna-tive for policymakers and city planers to improve air quality, which has been shown to crucially affect health outcomes.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 50 
KW  - air pollution
KW  - public transport
KW  - transport subsidies
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-558466
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 50
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Borck, Rainald
A1  - Mulder, Peter
T1  - Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities
BT  - A quantitative model
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - We study the effect of energy and transport policies on pollution in two developing country cities. We use a quantitative equilibrium model with choice of housing, energy use, residential location, transport mode, and energy technology. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters are calibrated to replicate key variables for two developing country cities, Maputo, Mozambique, and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In the counterfactual simulations, we study how various transport and energy policies affect equilibrium pollution. Policies may be induce rebound effects from increasing residential energy use or switching to high emission modes or locations. In general, these rebound effects tend to be largest for subsidies to public transport or modern residential energy technology.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 78 
KW  - pollution
KW  - energy policy
KW  - discrete choice
KW  - developing country cities
Y1  - 2024
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-638472
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 78
ER  -