Matthew Turner
Professor
Box B
Providence, RI 02912
matthew_turner@brown.edu
Matthew Turner
Professor
Box B
Providence, RI 02912
matthew_turner@brown.edu
Matthew Turner is a Professor of Economics at Brown University. He regularly teaches courses in urban and environmental economics, and occasionally, microeconomic theory. He is broadly interested in environmental and urban policy and his recent research focuses on the economics of land use and transportation. Current projects investigate the effects of the interstate highway system on US economic development, the relationship between subways and urban air pollution and the determinants of global particulate exposure. Professor Turner holds a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University. He is Vice President of the Urban Economics Association and a past Co-Editor of the Journal of Urban Economics. His research appears in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies and Econometrica, and is regularly featured in the popular press.
Does the US have an Infrastructure Cost Problem? Evidence from the Interstate Highway System
Neil Mehrotra, Juan Pablo Uribe and Matthew A. Turner
Transportation Infrastructure in the US
Gilles Duranton, Geetika Nagpal and Matthew A. Turner. NBER wp27254
Equilibrium Particulate Exposure
Lorenzo Aldeco, Lint Barrage and Matthew A. Turner
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
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
Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner. Review of Economics and Statistics, v100 no4:725-739, 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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