== Abstract ==

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Recent court cases and news reports have focused on the effects of transit construction on business revenue and survival, yet the topic is underexplored in the scholarly literature. This paper examines whether transit construction negatively affected the revenue and survival of businesses along the second segment of the Los Angeles Metro Rail Red Line under Vermont and Hollywood Boulevards. Using National Establishment Time-Series business data, the research shows that business survival was significantly lower among businesses within 400 meters of stations, where cut and cover construction was used. A difference-in-differences technique was employed to determine whether revenue loss was the main mechanism by which businesses were displaced, but revenue loss was not found to be significant. The increased failure rate provides evidence that construction effects of mitigation programs for businesses should be standard practice when building new transit lines. Further research and data collection on business tenure are needed to understand the dynamics of business displacement around transit and to make such programs more effective.

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== Original document ==

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The different versions of the original document can be found in:

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* [https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/download/932/919 https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/download/932/919] under the license cc-by-nc

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* [http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5pd086h4 http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5pd086h4],

: [http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5nw1s3g http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5nw1s3g]

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* [https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/932 https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/932],

: [https://doaj.org/toc/1938-7849 https://doaj.org/toc/1938-7849]

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* [https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/932/919 https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/932/919],

: [https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/932 https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/932],

: [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pd086h4 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pd086h4],

: [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pd086h4.pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pd086h4.pdf],

: [https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/191062 https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/191062],

: [https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/1126529377 https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/1126529377]

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* [https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/viewFile/932/919 https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/viewFile/932/919],

: [http://dx.doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2017.932 http://dx.doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2017.932]

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