Commuting to educational opportunity? School choice effects of mass transit expansion in Mexico City

A Dustan, DKL Ngo - Economics of Education Review, 2018 - Elsevier
School choice policies aim to increase educational access by weakening the link between a
student's residence and his choice set, but long commutes and other barriers may constrain …

[HTML][HTML] Transit infrastructure and informal housing: Assessing an expansion of Medellín's Metrocable system

HM Posada, A García-Suaza - Transport Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Transportation policies have a valuable influence on the allocation of resources within cities.
Therefore, investigating the impacts of transit interventions is relevant, especially in …

Residential segregation and women's labor market participation: The case of Santiago De Chile

MG Dellacasa - Feminist Economics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Women's labor market participation in Chile ranks among the lowest in Latin America. In a
country where over 90 percent of the population lives in segregated cities, where …

The adequacy of cost-benefit analysis in the assessment of public value: A case study from the transportation sector

M Caldeira, E Raskova, IB Vázquez… - Administration & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The complexity of the public value discussion has hindered the development of consensual
measurement guidelines for use in public administration practice. This article explores the …

Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion

K Asahi, I Pinto - Journal of Economic Geography, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We identify and quantify the impact of subways on equalising academic achievement in an
urban school choice setting. Specifically, we study the short-and medium-term effects of a …

Better urban transport improves labour market outcomes: evidence from a Subway expansion in Chile

K Asahi - Available at SSRN 2781807, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper identifies and quantifies the effects of better transport accessibility on labour
market outcomes. A 24 km new subway line and the extension of two existing lines in …

The effects of transport infrastructure on housing supply: the role of land-use regulation

K Asahi, A Herrera, HE Silva - Available at SSRN 4181968, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the impact of new transportation infrastructure on housing supply using historical
and microdata from Santiago and exploiting instrumental variables. We find that subway and …

Closer Proximity to the Subway Network Implies Lower High School Test Scores: Evidence from a Subway Expansion

K Asahi - Available at SSRN 2830131, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper identifies and quantifies the effects of better transport accessibility on student
performance measured by mathematics test scores. A 24 km new subway line and the …

CARE WORK IN CHILE'S SEGREGATED CITIES

M Garcia - 2021 - scholarworks.umass.edu
This project combines diverse theoretical and methodological tools to examine the
relationship between space and care work in Chile. The chapters are stand-alone articles …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of commuter market access on a city's structural density: evidence from a substantial investment in transport infrastructure

K Asahi, A Herrera, HE Silva - 2021 - sochitran.cl
This paper studies the impact of investments in urban highways and subway stations on a
city's structural density. We use microdata from Santiago, Chile, to analyze the effect of the …