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Strikes as Nudges - Upsides from the Tube Strike

Geoff Riley

6th November 2015

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In February 2014, strikes by staff on London’s underground network enabled a sizeable fraction of commuters to find better routes, according to research by Ferdinand Rauch and colleagues. Many commuters were forced to experiment and around one in 20 stuck with their new routes after the strike was over.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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