Research
Working Papers
The Skyscraper Revolution: Global Economic Development and Land Savings with Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Remi Jedwab
The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhood Change on Incumbent Families with Daniel Hartley and Kwan Ok Lee
Publications
Local Productivity Spillovers with Nicolas Gendron-Carrier and Ronni Pavan
American Economic Review, 2024, 114(4), 1030-69.
The Microgeography of Housing Supply with Lu Han
Accepted, Journal of Political Economy
replication data and code (complete replication package is here)
housing supply elasticity estimates (dta)
Constraints on City and Neighborhood Growth: The Central Role of Housing Supply
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37(2), 53–74 .
Accounting for Central Neighborhood Change, 1980-2010 with Daniel Hartley
Journal of Urban Economics, 2020, 117: 103228.
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102(5), 929-945.
Does Investment in National Highways Help or Hurt Hinterland City Growth? with J. Vernon Henderson, Matthew Turner, Qinghua Zhang and Loren Brandt
Journal of Urban Economics, 2020, 115: 103124.
Why Has Urban Inequality Increased? with Ronni Pavan and Matthew Freedman
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10(4): 1-42.
Roads, Railroads and Decentralization of Chinese Cities with Loren Brandt, J. Vernon Henderson, Matthew A. Turner and Qinghua Zhang
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(3): 435-448.
Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics with Fernando Ferreira,
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Vol. 5A, 2015, Gilles Duranton, J. Vernon Henderson, and William C. Strange eds., Elsevier, Amsterdam, 3-68.
Inequality and City Size with Ronni Pavan
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5): 1535-1548.
Understanding the City Size Wage Gap with Ronni Pavan
Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79(1): 88-127.
School Desegregation, School Choice and Changes in Residential Location Patterns by Race with Byron Lutz
American Economic Review, 2011, 101(7): 3019-3046.
American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 2010, 100(2): 378-382.
(This version is slightly longer than the published version which was cut due to space constraints.)
The Effects of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments on Neighborhoods with Justin Marion
Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93(5-6): 654-666.
Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122(2): 775-805.
Suburbanization and Transportation in the Monocentric Model
Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, 62(3): 405-423.
Effects of Urban Rail Transit Expansions: Evidence from Sixteen Cities with Matthew E. Kahn
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2005.
The Effects of New Public Projects to Expand Urban Rail Transit with Matthew E. Kahn
Journal of Public Economics, 2000, 77(2): 241-263.
Short Papers
Transportation Infrastructure and the Decentralization of Chinese Cities with Matthew Turner
Asian Development Review, 2017, 34(2), 25-50.
Changes in Urban Population Densities Over the Next 40 Years
Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2013, 15(3): 171-174.
Review of The Wine Trials: 2010 by Robin Goldstein and Alexis Herschkowitsch
Journal of Wine Economics, 2010, 5(1): 205-208.
Mismeasurement of Usual Hours Worked in the Census and ACS with Derek Neal
Economics Letters, 2009, 102(1): 39-41.