JOS VAN OMMEREN

Biographic Data

ID5738017
NAMEJOS VAN OMMEREN
GIVEN NAMESJOS
FAMILY NAMEVAN OMMEREN
SIGNATUREVAN OMMEREN J
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0003-4838-478X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS195
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX9

  • Commuting, gender and children

    Open AccessMalte Borghorst, Ismir Mulalic et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2024References: 49

    We demonstrate that women with children are much more likely to leave their job when they have a long commute, which is not true for men. Interpreting these results through the lens of a dynamic search model, we demonstrate that commuting costs increase substantially for women after they have children. For women with children, a 12 kilometer increase in commuting distance induces costs equivalent to about 20% of their wage

  • Do highway widenings reduce congestion

    Open AccessIoulia V Ossokina, JOS VAN OMMEREN et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2022Cited by: 1References: 4

    Highway construction occurs nowadays mainly through widening of existing roads rather than building new roads. This article documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using longitudinal microdata from highway detector loops in the Netherlands, we find substantial travel time savings. These savings occur despite strong increases in traffic flow. The welfare benefits in the short run a…

  • Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam

    Open AccessFrancis Ostermeijer, Hans Koster et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2022References: 22

    We examine the effect of citywide parking policy on parking and traffic demand. Using a large increase in on-street parking prices for the city of Amsterdam, we show that the policy caused a substantial drop in on-street parking demand, which is not offset by an increase in off-street demand. The overall reduction in parking demand implies a 2% – 3% reduction in traffic, which is confirmed with traffic flow data. The decline in traffic is larger …

  • Welfare losses of road congestion: Evidence from Rome

    Open AccessAntonio Russo, Martin Adler et al.ARTICLERegional Science and Urban…2021

  • Accident externality of driving: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge

    Open AccessCheng Keat Tang, JOS VAN OMMERENARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2021References: 1

    This paper estimates the marginal accident externality of driving in Central London by exploiting variation in traffic flow induced by the London Congestion Charge Zone using an instrumental variable approach. The charge attributed to a 9.4% reduction in traffic flow, which resulted in a less than proportional 6.0% and 7.6% decrease in accidents and slight injuries, and a 6.5% increase in serious injuries/fatalities. Our preferred estimates indic…

  • Automobiles and urban density

    Open AccessFrancis Ostermeijer, Hans Koster et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2021Cited by: 1References: 5

    How has the rise of the automobile influenced urban areas over the past century? In this paper, we investigate the long-run impact of car ownership on urban population density, based on a sample of 232 city observations in 57 countries. Using the presence of a domestic car manufacturer in 1920 as a source of exogenous variation, our IV estimates indicate that car ownership substantially reduces density. A one standard deviation increase in car ow…

  • Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles

    Open AccessHans Koster, JOS VAN OMMEREN et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2021Cited by: 16References: 43

    Online short-term rental (STR) platforms such as Airbnb have grown spectacularly. We study the effects of regulation of these platforms on the housing market using a quasi-experimental research design. 18 out of 88 cities in Los Angeles County have severely restricted short-term rentals by adopting Home Sharing Ordinances. We apply a panel regression-discontinuity design around the cities’ borders. Ordinances reduced listings by 50% and housing p…

  • The congestion relief benefit of public transit: Evidence from Rome

    Open AccessMartin Adler, Federica Liberini et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2020Cited by: 1References: 2

    We estimate the effect of public transport supply on travel times of motor-vehicle and bus users in Rome, Italy. We apply a quasi-experimental methodology exploiting hourly information on public transport service reductions during strikes. We find that a 10-percentage point reduction in public transit supply increases the travel time of motor-vehicles by about 1.6% in the morning peak. The effect on bus travel time is similar. The congestion-reli…

  • Place-Based Policies and the Housing Market

    Hans R A Koster, Hans Koster et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2019

    We study the economic effects of place-based policies in the housing market, by investigating the effects of a place-based program on prices of surrounding owner-occupied properties. The program improved the quality of public housing in 83 impoverished neighborhoods throughout the Netherlands. We combine a first-difference approach with a fuzzy regression-discontinuity design to address the fundamental issue that these neighborhoods are endogenou…

  • The impact of highways on population redistribution: The role of land development restrictions

    Open AccessOr Levkovich, Jan Rouwendal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2019Cited by: 6References: 4

    We study the role of land development restrictions for the effects of highway expansion on the spatial distribution of population for the Netherlands. Introducing an IV approach to address multiple endogenous interaction variables, our findings show that new highways accelerated population growth in peripheral areas, but had no apparent effect in suburban municipalities, in line with the presence of development restrictions. Highway expansions ca…

  • Shopping externalities and retail concentration: Evidence from dutch shopping streets

    Open AccessHans Koster, Ilias Pasidis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2019Cited by: 3References: 36

  • The external cruising costs of parking

    Eren Inci, JOS VAN OMMEREN et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2017Cited by: 3References: 2

    Existing work emphasizes the importance of traffic congestion externalities, but typically ignores cruising-for-parking externalities. We estimate the marginal external cruising costs of parking-that is, the time costs that an additional parked car imposes on drivers by inducing them to cruise for parking-which is one of the main components of cruising-for-parking externalities. The level of cruising is identified by examining to what extent the …

  • Households' willingness to pay for public housing

    Open AccessJos N Van Ommeren, JOS VAN OMMEREN et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2016Cited by: 2References: 31

  • Does public transit reduce car travel externalities? Quasi-natural experiments' evidence from transit strikes

    Open AccessMartin W Adler, Martin Adler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2016Cited by: 1References: 23

  • On revenue recycling and the welfare effects of second-best congestion pricing in a monocentric city

    Open AccessIoannis Tikoudis, Erik T Verhoef et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2015Cited by: 2References: 33

  • Commuting and labour supply revisited

    Open AccessEva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Jos N Van Ommeren et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2015References: 21

    According to theory, road pricing may reduce welfare when labour supply is negatively distorted by an income tax. This effect particularly occurs when commuting costs reduce labour supply. We examine the hypothesis that commuting costs reduce labour supply in the short-run. In particular, we estimate the effect of commuting time on labour supply in the UK. We account for endogeneity of commuting time by employing exogenous changes in commuting ti…

  • Historic amenities, income and sorting of households

    Hans Koster, Jos N Van Ommeren et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2014Cited by: 7References: 5

    We aim to estimate the impact of historic amenities on house prices and sorting of households. Historic district boundaries enable us to measure the external view effect of historic amenities, defined as the effect of a historic amenity on the price of other buildings through an improved view from the other buildings. We use a semiparametric regression-discontinuity approach to control for unobserved location characteristics and focus on houses c…

  • Do rich households live farther away from their workplaces

    Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Ismir Mulalic et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2014Cited by: 9References: 4

    One of the classic predictions of urban economic theory is that high-income and low-income households choose different residential locations and therefore, conditional on workplace location, have different commuting patterns. The effect of household income on commuting distance may be positive, because of an increased demand for housing as house prices are lower further from workplace locations, or negative, because of an increase in the value of…

  • Towards a general theory of mixed zones: The role of congestion

    Open AccessYuval Kantor, Piet Rietveld et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2014Cited by: 3References: 14

  • Agglomeration Economies and Productivity: A Structural Estimation Approach Using Commercial Rents

    Open AccessHans R A Koster, Hans Koster et al.ARTICLEEconomica2014Cited by: 2References: 48

    We gain more insight into the heterogeneity in firms' productivity regarding agglomeration economies. Given a production function that allows for input factor substitution, we identify ratios of firm‐specific production parameters employing a hedonic price approach. We use unique microdata of commercial rents and firm characteristics, and employ semiparametric estimation techniques. The results show that agglomeration economies capitalize in comm…

  • Wages and Commuting: Quasi-natural Experiments' Evidence from Firms that Relocate

    Open AccessIsmir Mulalic, Jos N Van Ommeren et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2014Cited by: 27References: 36

    We examine individual-level compensating differentials for commuting distance in a quasi-natural experiment setting by examining how wages respond to changes in commuting distance induced by firm relocations. This set-up enables us to test for the relevance of job search frictions within labour market models. Due to the quasi-experimental set-up, we are able to avoid a range of endogeneity issues. We demonstrate that a 1 km increase in commuting …

  • Is the sky the limit? High-rise buildings and office rents

    Hans Koster, JOS VAN OMMEREN et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2013Cited by: 9References: 11

    Modern central business districts are characterized by high-rise office buildings, but their presence cannot be explained by standard urban economic models only. We aim to explore the impact of other forces that explain the presence of tall buildings, by examining the existence of a building height premium. We find that Dutch firms are willing to pay on average about 4% more for a building that is 10 m taller, implying a substantial premium assoc…

  • The university workers’ willingness to pay for commuting

    Open AccessGiovanni Russo, JOS VAN OMMEREN et al.ARTICLETransportation2012

    Using a dynamic approach, employing data on job mobility, we demonstrate that university workers’ marginal willingness to pay for reducing commuting distance is about €0.25 per kilometre travelled. This corresponds to a marginal willingness to pay for reducing commuting time of about 75 % of the net average hourly wage. For females, the willingness to pay is substantially higher than for males. It is also substantially higher for workers that wor…

  • The real price of parking policy

    Open AccessJOS VAN OMMEREN, Derk Wentink et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2011Cited by: 6References: 18

  • Endogenous transport prices and trade imbalances

    Olaf Jonkeren, Ergün Demirel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2010Cited by: 7References: 1

    According to economic theory, imbalances in trade flows affect transport prices, because (some) carriers have to return without cargo from the low-demand region to the high-demand region. Therefore, transport prices in the high-demand direction have to exceed those in the low-demand direction. This implies that transport costs, and therefore trade costs, are fundamentally endogenous with respect to trade imbalances. We study the effect of an imba…