JUE insight : ticket to paradise?
- 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.
Author details: | Niklas GohlORCiDGND, Philipp SchrauthORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2024.103643 |
ISSN: | 0094-1190 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of urban economics |
Subtitle (English): | the effect of a public transport subsidy on air quality |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2024/02/13 |
Publication year: | 2024 |
Release date: | 2024/04/10 |
Article number: | 103643 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Peer review: | Referiert |