Publications:

• Subways and urban air pollution

  • Nicholas Gendron-Carrier, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Stefano Polloni and Matthew A. Turner. AEJ Applied, conditionally accepted

• Urbanization in the developing world: Too early or to slow?

  • J. Vernon Henderson and Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Economic Perspectives, v34(3):150-73, 2020

  • Data and replication files

• Does investment in national highways help or hurt hinterland city growth?

  • Nathaniel Baum-Snow, J. Vernon Henderson, Matthew A. Turner, Qinghua Zhang, and Loren Brandt. Journal of Urban Economics, v115:103-24, 2020

• Local transportation policy and economic opportunity

  • The Brookings Instution, Hamilton Project policy proposal 2019-03, 2019

• Urban form and driving: Evidence from US cities

  • Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Urban Economics, v108:170-191, 2018

• Subways and urban growth: Evidence from Earth

  • Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Urban Economics, v108:85-106, 2018

  • Data: subway census v1, Replication files , or https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VHPRTA

• Speed

  • Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner. Review of Economics and Statistics, v100 no4:725-739, 2018

  • Replication files

• Benefit transfer and spatial equilibrium

  • Environmental and Resource Economics, v69 no3:575-589, 2018

• Transport infrastructure and the decentralization of cities in the Peoples’ Republic of China

  • Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Matthew A. Turner. Asian Development Review, v34 no 2:25-50, 2017

• Roads, railroads and decentralization of Chinese Cities

  • Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Loren Brandt, J. Vernon Henderson, Matthew A. Turner and Qinghua Zhang. Review of Economics and Statistics, v48 no3: 435-48, 2017

  • Replication files. Some source data is available here: Digital Transportation Networks of China from 1700-2010

• Transportation costs and the spatial organization of economic activity

  • Stephen J. Redding and Matthew A. Turner. Elsevier Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics, volume 5, Elsevier, 2015

• Land use regulation and welfare

  • Matthew A. Turner, Andrew Haughwout and Wilbert van der Klaauw. Econometrica, v82 no4:1341-1403, July 2014

  • Replication files.

• Roads and trade: Evidence from the US

  • Gilles Duranton, Peter Morrow and Matthew A. Turner. Review of Economic Studies, v82 no4:1341-1403, May 2014

  • supplemental appendix

• Adaptation to climate change in preindustrial Iceland

  • Matthew A. Turner, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Jian Chen and Chunyan Hao. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 102(3): 250-255, May 2012

  • More detail is available in the longer version Advances and Applications in Statistics, 2012.

• Urban growth and transportation

  • Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner. Review of Economic Studies, 79(4):1407-1440, December 2012

• The fundamental law of road congestion: Evidence from the US

  • Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner. American Economic Review, 101(6):2616-52, October 2011

  • Data appendix and supplemental results

• The effects of land transfer taxes on real estate markets: Evidence from a natural experiment in Toronto

  • Ben Dachis, Gilles Duranton, and Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Economic Geography, pp. 1-28 doi:10.1093/jeg/lbr007, May 2011

• The value of information in public decisions

  • Arvind Magesan and Matthew A. Turner. BE Journal of Economics and Policy, 10(1):(Contributions), Article 76, July 2010

• Cost benefit analyses versus referenda

  • Martin J. Osborne and Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Political Economy, 118(1):156-187, February 2010

• Sand in the gears: Evaluating the effects of Toronto's land transfer tax

  • Ben Dachis, Gilles Duranton, and Matthew A. Turner. C.D.Howe working paper no 277, December 2008

• Decomposing the growth in residential land in the United States

  • Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga, and Matthew A. Turner. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38:487-497, September 2008

  • Data and documentation

• Fat city: Questioning the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity

  • Jean Eid, Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga, and Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Urban Economics, 63:385-404, March 2008

• The usefulness of imperfect elections

  • Loren Brandt and Matthew A. Turner. Economics and Politics, 19(3):453-480, November 2007

• A simple theory of smart growth and sprawl

  • Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Urban Economics, 61:21-44, January 2007

• Causes of sprawl: A portrait from space

  • Marcy Burchfield, Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga, and Matthew A. Turner. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(2):587-633, May 2006

  • Data and documentation.

• Landscape preferences and patterns of residential development

  • Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Urban Economics, 57:19-54, January 2005

• Meetings with costly participation: Reply

  • Martin J. Osborne, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, and Matthew A. Turner. American Economic Review, 95(4):1351-1354, September 2005

• Meetings with costly participation; An empirical analysis

  • Matthew A. Turner and Quinn Weninger. Review of Economic Studies, 72:247-268, January 2005

• Local government behavior and property right formation in rural china

  • Loren Brandt, Scott Rozelle and Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 160:627-662, December 2004

• Meetings with costly participation

  • Martin J. Osborne, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, and Matthew A. Turner. American Economic Review, 90(4):928-943, September 2000

• Tradition and common property management

  • Matthew A. Turner. Canadian Journal of Economics, 32(3):673-687, May 1999

• Parental altruism and common property management

  • Matthew A. Turner. Canadian Journal of Economics, 30(4a):809-821, November 1997

• Quota-induced discarding in heterogeneous fisheries

  • Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 33:186-195, June 1997

• Value-based ITQ's

  • Matthew A. Turner. Marine Resource Economics, 11:59-69, Summer 1996

• Industrial development in cities

  • J. Vernon Henderson, Ari Kuncoro, and Matthew A. Turner. Journal of Political Economy, 103(5):1067-1090, October 1995