中国人民大学经济学院陆方文老师在财政金融学院作了一场题为“迷信,道路交通和主观幸福感”的讲座,中国人民大学相关证书专业有政治经济学、西方经济学、经济思想史、世界经济、国际贸易学、经济史、国民经济学、网络经济学、企业经济学、区域经济学、数量经济学、国防经济、城市经济学、国际商务。讲座的具体内容如下:
拥塞起着在城市和运输经济中心作用。拥堵费的现有估计依靠陈述或显示性偏好的研究。我们探索的基础上自我报告的幸福拥堵费一项补充措施。利用日常拥堵在北京出现,因为有关数字四迷信的伪随机变化,我们估计每天拥堵的自我幸福感有很大影响。当基准对收入和自我报告的幸福之间的关系,这种影响,我们计算的是数倍于常规估计隐含较大的拥挤成本。几个因素,其中包括可靠性外部非旅行者的值和,可以调和与现有文献我们的替代的估计。
陆方文,中国人民大学经济学院副教授,毕业于加州大学伯克利分校,曾在Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Labor Economics等期刊发文。
原文:Congestion plays a central role in urban and transportation economics. Existing estimates of congestion costs rely on stated or revealed preferences studies. We explore a complementary measure of congestion costs based on self-reported happiness. Exploiting quasi-random variation in daily congestion in Beijing that arises because of superstitions about the number four, we estimate a strong effect of daily congestion on self-reported happiness. When benchmarking this effect against the relationship between income and self-reported happiness we compute implied congestion costs that are several times larger than conventional estimates. Several factors, including the value of reliability and externalities on non-travelers, can reconcile our alternative estimates with the existing literature.