Economists Ed Glaeser and Matthew Kahn have written a new paper estimating the differences in carbon emissions across different metropolitan areas.
Using a hypothetial household with 2.62 members and $62,000 in average yearly earnings, they attempt to calculate how much carbon dioxide this household would emit in a given metropolitan area. They estimate household emissions from driving, public transportation, home heating and electricity (which includes air conditioning), and they factor in the relative cleanness of the region's electricity...
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I agree with Ryan Avent that this WSJ piece makes a bizarre argument against congestion pricing: By requiring car drivers to pay a fee to drive in a city at peak hours, congestion pricing...
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I agree with Ryan Avent that this WSJ piece makes a bizarre argument against congestion pricing: By requiring car drivers to pay a fee to drive in a city at peak hours, congestion pricing...
Bag fees
I hate airlines' practice of charging to check bags even though I rarely check bags. But I understand the economics. Strangely, Matthew Yglesias does not: I have to say I’m not really...
Bag fees
I hate airlines' practice of charging to check bags even though I rarely check bags. But I understand the economics. Strangely, Matthew Yglesias does not: I have to say I’m not...
What does blogging crowd out?
Matthew Kahn wonders whether blog reading crowds out book reading. He believes there are two types of blog readers: the nerdy "Wikipedia" types who like variety and suffer from...
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