The article, like everything else I link on the Evil Line, is about transportation. Specifically, how congestion charges will save the world but are politically impossible.
Komanoff’s life has been driven by two passions: cycling and data.
And a long quote from a short blog post:
Both links are worth checking out.
Black sellers do worse than white sellers on a variety of market outcome measures: they receive 13% fewer responses and 17% fewer offers. These effects are strongest in the Northeast, and are similar in magnitude to those associated with the display of a wrist tattoo.
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Buyers corresponding with black sellers exhibit lower trust: they are 17% less likely to include their name in e-mails, 44% less likely to accept delivery by mail, and 56% more likely to express concern about making a long-distance payment.
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