Jeffrey Lin
Economic advisor and economist
(215) 574-3441
jlin.org Curriculum Vitae (May 8, 2017) Recent updatesSystem Applied Micro conference (18-19 May 2017) Data to crosswalk historical U.S. census tract data to 2010 boundaries (8 May 2017) "Natural Amenities, Neighborhood Dynamics, and Persistence in the Spatial Distribution of Income," forthcoming at Review of Economic Studies (27 March 2017)
Working papersFreeway Revolts!
with Jeffrey Brinkman
The Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences
with Ina Ganguli and Nicholas Reynolds
Regional Resilience
PublicationsNatural Amenities, Neighborhood Dynamics, and Persistence in the Spatial Distribution of Income
with Sanghoon Lee
What Have We Learned About the Causes of Recent Gentrification?
with Jackelyn Hwang
History and the Sizes of Cities
with Hoyt Bleakley
Thick Markets and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities with Hoyt Bleakley
Portage and Path Dependence with Hoyt Bleakley
Technological Adaptation, Cities, and New Work
Precision, Bias, and Uncertainty for State Population Forecasts: An Exploratory Analysis of Time Series Models
with Jeff Tayman and Stanley K. Smith
Gentrification and Transit in Northwest Chicago
Other writingNon-technical articles written for general audiences
The Puzzling Persistence of Place
I explore the remarkable persistence of urban development patterns over decades, centuries, or even millennia. Is such extreme persistence desirable? What does it imply about today's "place-making" policies?
The Paper Trail of Knowledge Transfers
Why do firms tend to locate near other firms? Economists suspect that geographic clustering spurs innovation by letting businesses tap a climate rich in informal transfers of knowledge. By tracing links between inventors filing for patents for the same inventions, I review new evidence supporting the idea that proximity offers businesses tangible benefits. Geography, History, Economies of Density, and the Location of Cities
What determines the location of cities? I review evidence on the roles of natural amenities, history dependence, and economies of density in explaining the the location and sizes of cities. Urban Productivity Advantages from Job Search and Matching
Why do workers earn higher wages in big cities? One intriguing hypothesis is that agglomeration economies from job search and matching contribute to higher productivity in densely populated areas. I describe recent evidence and ask whether advantages from job search and matching are large enough to offer meaningful explanations for differences in productivity across cities. Data and codeData for "normalizing" historical census data to 2010 census tract boundaries, from "Natural Amenities, Neighborhood Dynamics, and Persistence in the Spatial Distribution of Income" (2017), Review of Economic Studies. Data on new occupation titles and codes ("new work") in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, 1964, 1977, 1991, and the US Census, 1980, 1990, and 2000. From "Technological Adaptation, Cities, and New Work" (2011), Review of Economics and Statistics 93 (2): 554-574. Last updated May 8, 2017 Home URL: http://jlin.org/ The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System. |