Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309155 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 24-409
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
The provision of public transportation can improve the accessibility of work opportunities. However, predicting the labor market effects of new transit infrastructure is difficult because of endogenous worker decisions. I examine a large public-transit rail project on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Using block-level commuter-flow and travel-time estimates, I propose and estimate a quantitative spatial model of location and mode choice for workers. I estimate that the new rail system increases public-transit-mode share and the employment rate but does not reduce the average commute duration, because of endogenous worker sorting. Low-income workers on Oahu capture a significant share of transit's direct benefits because of their relative preference for both transit and the neighborhoods served by rail.
Subjects: 
transportation
transit
residential choice
neighborhood change
spatial mismatch
JEL: 
J20
J60
R13
R23
R40
R58
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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