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THE ECONOMICS OF CARPOOLS
Author(s) -
LEE LI WAY
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7295.1984.tb00672.x
Subject(s) - carpool , economics , consumption (sociology) , work (physics) , microeconomics , wage , public economics , gasoline , labour economics , transport engineering , engineering , mechanical engineering , social science , sociology , waste management
The paper shows how separate parts of a work trip enter the decision to carpool, and examines how the size of a carpool is related to the gasoline price, the wage rate, speed limits, and other factors. The paper also suggests that policies designed to promote carpooling may produce perverse effects on gasoline consumption.