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Working Papers

2014

1. Distributional Consequences of Public Policies: An Example from the Management of Urban Vehicular Travel Abstract: This paper uses a spatially disaggregated computable general equilibrium model of a large US metropolitan area to compare two kinds of policies, “Live Near Your Work” and taxation of vehicular travel, that have been proposed to help further the aims of “smart growth.” Ordinarily, policy comparisons of this sort focus on the net benefits of the two policies; that is, the total monetized net welfare gains or losses to all citizens. While the aggregate net benefits are certainly important, in this analysis we also disaggregate these benefits along two important dimensions: income and location within the metropolitan area. The resulting identification of gainers and losers with these policies, though undoubtedly important to matters such as fairness and political feasibility, are rarely made. We find that these distributional effects are quite sensitive to the details of policy design. Classification-JEL: R13, R48, R52
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future

2012

2. Zoning on the Urban Fringe: Results from a New Approach to Modeling Land and Housing Markets
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (13)
   See also Journal Article Zoning on the urban fringe: Results from a new approach to modeling land and housing markets, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier (2012) View citations (11) (2012)

2008

3. Marginal Social Cost Pricing on a Transportation Network: Comparison of Second-Best Policies
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2007

4. Spatial Development and Energy Consumption
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5. Washington START Transportation Model
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2006

6. Congestion Pricing: Long-Term Economic and Land-Use Effects
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7. Long-Term Consequences of Congestion Pricing: A Small Cordon in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
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8. Transit in Washington, D.C.: Current Benefits and Optimal Level of Provision
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   See also Journal Article Transit in Washington, DC: Current benefits and optimal level of provision, Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2007) View citations (34) (2007)
9. What Drives Telecommuting? The Relative Impact of Worker Demographics, Employer Characteristics, and Job Types
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2005

10. Telecommuting and environmental policy - lessons from the Ecommute program
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2004

11. A Review of the Literature on Telecommuting and Its Implications for Vehicle Travel and Emissions
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    Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (2004) View citations (5)
12. What Have We Learned from a Recent Survey of Teleworkers? Evaluating the 2002 SCAG Survey
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2003

13. Measuring Marginal Congestion Costs of Urban Transportation: Do Networks Matter?
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    Also in Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future (2003) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Measuring marginal congestion costs of urban transportation: Do networks matter?, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier (2007) View citations (16) (2007)
14. Welfare and Distributional Effects of Road Pricing Schemes for Metropolitan Washington, DC
    Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future View citations (5)
    Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (2003) View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article 8. WELFARE AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ROAD PRICING SCHEMES FOR METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC, Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier (2004) View citations (16) (2004)

Journal Articles

2012

1. Zoning on the urban fringe: Results from a new approach to modeling land and housing markets
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42, (1-2), 198-210 View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Zoning on the Urban Fringe: Results from a New Approach to Modeling Land and Housing Markets, RFF Working Paper Series (2012) View citations (13) (2012)

2007

2. Measuring marginal congestion costs of urban transportation: Do networks matter?
   Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2007, 41, (8), 734-749 View citations (16)
   See also Working Paper Measuring Marginal Congestion Costs of Urban Transportation: Do Networks Matter?, RFF Working Paper Series (2003) View citations (9) (2003)
3. Transit in Washington, DC: Current benefits and optimal level of provision
   Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, 62, (2), 231-251 View citations (34)
   See also Working Paper Transit in Washington, D.C.: Current Benefits and Optimal Level of Provision, RFF Working Paper Series (2006) View citations (9) (2006)

2004

4. 8. WELFARE AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ROAD PRICING SCHEMES FOR METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC
   Research in Transportation Economics, 2004, 9, (1), 179-206 View citations (16)
   See also Working Paper Welfare and Distributional Effects of Road Pricing Schemes for Metropolitan Washington, DC, Discussion Papers (2003) View citations (5) (2003)

2002

5. Telecommuting, traffic congestion, and agglomeration: a general equilibrium model
   Journal of Urban Economics, 2002, 52, (1), 26-52 View citations (38)