| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21551 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21551 |
| Superstitions, Street Traffic, and Subjective Well-Being | |
| Michael L. Anderson; Fangwen Lu; Yiran Zhang; Jun Yang; Ping Qin | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-09-14 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Congestion plays a central role in urban and transportation economics. Existing estimates of congestion costs rely on stated or revealed preferences studies. We explore a complementary measure of congestion costs based on self-reported happiness. Exploiting quasi-random variation in daily congestion in Beijing that arises because of superstitions about the number four, we estimate a strong effect of daily congestion on self-reported happiness. When benchmarking this effect against the relationship between income and self-reported happiness we compute implied congestion costs that are several times larger than conventional estimates. Several factors, including the value of reliability and externalities on non-travelers, can reconcile our alternative estimates with the existing literature. |
| 主题 | Regional and Urban Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21551 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579226 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael L. Anderson,Fangwen Lu,Yiran Zhang,et al. Superstitions, Street Traffic, and Subjective Well-Being. 2015. |
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