The economics of climate change with endogenous preferences

L Mattauch, C Hepburn, F Spuler, N Stern - Resource and Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Avoiding unmanageable climate change implies that global greenhouse gas emissions
must be reduced rapidly. Carbon prices and technological development are essential to …

Pushed back, pulled forward: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on young adults' life plans and future mobility

A Delbosc, L McCarthy - Transport policy, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption to how people live, work
and travel. There has been a recent outburst of research on the short-term impacts that the …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of European fuel-tax cuts on the oil income of Russia

J Gars, D Spiro, H Wachtmeister - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there has been a surge in transport fuel prices.
Consequently, many European Union (EU) countries are cutting taxes on petrol and diesel …

Fuel economy and the price of gasoline: Evidence from fueling-level micro data

CR Knittel, S Tanaka - Journal of Public Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
The short-term elasticity of gasoline consumption is determined by both vehicle distances
traveled and the efficiency with which each mile is driven. Rarely is the latter observed. We …

An economic analysis of United States public transit carbon emissions dynamics

R Huang, ME Kahn - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
During a time of rising concern about climate change, the urban public transit sector has not
significantly reduced its carbon footprint. Using data from the nation's transit agencies over …

Stuck in the seventies: gas prices and consumer sentiment

C Binder, C Makridis - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Using daily consumer survey data, we analyze the transmission of gas prices to consumer
beliefs and expectations about the economy. We exploit the high frequency and geographic …

An economic analysis of United States public transit carbon emissions dynamics

R Huang, ME Kahn - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
During a time of rising concern about climate change, the urban public transit sector has not
significantly reduced its carbon footprint. Using data from the nation's transit agencies over …

Driving behavior and the price of gasoline: Evidence from fueling-level micro data

CR Knittel, S Tanaka - 2019 - nber.org
We use novel microdata on on-road fuel consumption and prices paid for fuel in Japan to
estimate short-run price elasticities of demand for gasoline consumption. We have three …

Will the Developing World's Growing Middle Class Support Low Carbon Policies?

ME Kahn, S Lall - 2022 - nber.org
As billions of people in the developing world seek to increase their living standards, their
aspirations pose a challenge to global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The …

Measuring long‐run gasoline price elasticities in urban travel demand

JD Donna - The RAND Journal of Economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
I develop a structural model of urban travel to estimate long‐run gasoline price elasticities. I
model the demand for transportation services using a dynamic discrete‐choice model with …