- Title
- Consumption Access and Agglomeration: Evidence from Smartphone Data
- Author(s)
- Yuhei Miyauchi Yuhei Miyauchi (Boston University)
- Kentaro Nakajima Kentaro Nakajima (Hitotsubashi University)
- Stephen J. Redding Stephen Redding (Princeton University and CEPR and NBER)
- Abstract
- Using smartphone data for Japan, we show that non-commuting trips are frequent, more localized than commuting trips, strongly related to the availability of nontraded services, and occur along trip chains. Guided by these empirical findings, we develop a quantitative urban model that incorporates travel to work and travel to consume non-traded services. We use the gravity equation predictions of the model to estimate theoretically-consistent measures of travel access. We show that consumption access makes a substantial contribution to the observed variation in residents and land prices and the observed impact of the opening of a new subway line.
- Creation Date
- 2021-06
- Section URL ID
- Paper Number
- 287
- URL
- https://gceps.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/287_Redding.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- O18, R12, R20, R30, R40, R41
- Keyword(s)
- agglomeration, urbanization, transportation, Japan
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 3