Participation and Incentive Choice of Participants in an Early Vehicle Retirement Program in Quebec, Canada

Author(s):  
Ugo Lachapelle
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2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Sandler

Vehicle retirement programs have become popular tools of public policy for reducing pollution. The efficacy of these programs is difficult to measure, as it is difficult to tell how much a vehicle would have polluted otherwise. I estimate that counterfactual using data from a long-running local program in California. I utilize the universe of emissions inspections from the California Smog Check Program to construct vehicle usage histories of retired cars and similar vehicles which did not retire early. I find that the program's cost-effectiveness steadily declined over time because of the depreciation of the vehicle fleet, while adverse selection remained a problem throughout. (JEL D82, Q53, Q58, R48)



1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Alberini ◽  
Winston Harrington ◽  
Virginia McConnell


1946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald K. Wilson
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2011 ◽  
Vol 211 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panos L. Lorentziadis ◽  
Stylianos G. Vournas




2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas W Davis ◽  
Matthew E Kahn

Since trade restrictions were eliminated in 2005, Mexico has imported over 2.5 million used vehicles from the United States. Using a unique, vehicle-level dataset, we find that traded vehicles are dirtier than the stock of vehicles in the United States and cleaner than the stock in Mexico, so when a vehicle is traded from the United States to Mexico average vehicle emissions per mile tend to decrease in both countries. Overall, however, the evidence suggests that trade has increased total lifetime emissions, primarily because of low vehicle retirement rates in Mexico. (JEL F13, F14, L62, O13, O19, Q53, Q56)



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