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  -