東京大学政策評価研究教育センター

Title Uber vs. Taxi: A Driver’s Eye View
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Date 2018年5月24日(木)May 24, 2018, 16:50-18:35
Venue 東京大学国際学術総合研究棟地下1階・第1教室にて開催 [地図]
Lecture Hall No. 1, International Academi Research Building, University of Tokyo [MAP]
Speaker Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Tecnology)
Abstract Ride-hailing drivers pay a proportion of their fares to the ride-hailing platform operator, a commission-based compensation model used by many internet-mediated service providers. To Uber drivers, this commission is known as the Uber fee. By contrast, traditional taxi drivers in most US cities make a fixed payment independent of their earnings, usually a weekly or daily medallion lease, but keep every fare dollar net of expenses. We assess these compensation models from a driver’s point of view using an experiment that offered random samples of Boston Uber drivers opportunities to lease a virtual taxi medallion that eliminates the Uber fee. Some drivers were offered a negative fee. Drivers’ labor supply response to our offers reveals a large intertemporal substitution elasticity, on the order of 1.2. At the same time, our virtual lease program was under-subscribed: many drivers who would have benefitted from buying an inexpensive lease chose to opt out. We use these results to compute the average compensation required to make drivers indifferent between ride-hailing and a traditional taxi compensation contract. The results suggest that ride-hailing drivers gain considerably from the opportunity to drive without leasing.
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