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Title: THE IMPACT OF COMPLETE STREETS POLICIES ON INDIVIDUAL WELL-BEING
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the literature on the impact of Complete Streets policies on individual well-being so that policy-makers can fully understand the outcomes of the polices they adopt. For the purposes of this paper, well-being is defined as work-life balance, income, social capital, and health outcomes. The empirical strategy, using fixed effects and difference-in-differences approaches to analyze American Community Survey and National Complete Streets Coalition data, attempts to show how Complete Streets policies and projects affect well-being outcomes including income and wage, usual hours worked per week, travel time to work, spousal relationship, and self-care difficulty in the past six months. The results of the Complete Streets policy analysis at the city-level were insignificant while the Complete Streets project analysis results at the community-level were generally significant. These results indicate that Complete Streets projects may have an impact on the well-being of individuals. This thesis provides evidence that policy-makers should consider the impact of Complete Streets on individuals during the policy deliberation process and confirms the need for further academic research on this topic.
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Authors: Pursley, Margaret
Institution: Georgetown University
Department: Public Policy
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Topics: Crime and Deviance
Countries: United States