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Title:

The Effect of Transit Passes Within School Walk Zones on School Attendance

Accession Number:

01763998

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

In multiple U.S. cities, school districts and transit providers have begun to collaborate and implement programs to provide students access to public transit to either replace or supplement yellow school buses. Although these programs have been widely acknowledged as a promising and innovative solution by practitioners, there is no empirical research evidence to date confirming the benefits of these programs to individual students. This paper responds to this research gap by exploiting the introduction of Minneapolis’ Go-To Student Pass program – a transportation program that began to provide student access to public transit in August 2013 – on students’ school attendance rates. Both traditional Difference-in-differences (DD) models and Two-Way Fixed Effects (TWFE) models are specified to compare all students living within a 2-mile radius of their school, of which only Free-and-Reduced Lunch (FRL) eligible students received Go-To-Passes. Poisson regressions estimate that pass provision reduces excused absences by about 36%, yet negligibly affects unexcused absences. While the traditional DD approach yields insignificant results on total absences, the TWFE specification finds that student passes reduced total absences by 18%. All statistically significant findings are reported at a 95% confidence level.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP030 Standing Committee on Public Transportation Marketing and Fare Policy.

Report/Paper Numbers:

TRBAM-21-03675

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Wexler, Noah
Fan, Yingling
Ryan, Galen
Das, Kirti

Pagination:

13p

Publication Date:

2021

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Minneapolis (Minnesota)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Society

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021 Paper #TRBAM-21-03675

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 23 2020 11:17AM