Getting Around: Cars and Land Use

Matthew Holian

Chapter Chapter 6 in Data and the American Dream, 2021, pp 109-118 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This brief chapter illustrates the instrumental variables (IV) technique for causal inference, through an empirical case study of land use, as measured by population density, and vehicle ownership. It describes how the American Community Survey (ACS) can be used to study questions related to commuting and working from home. It emphasizes an intuitive understanding of the technique, and shows how a natural experiment on sibling gender and home size, first introduced in Chapter 1 , can be used in an IV model.

Keywords: Instrumental variables; Land-use; Population density; Transportation; Vehicles; Commuting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64262-4_6

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