Jeffrey LinAboutThis page is no longer being updated. Please visit my new page at jlin.org. I am an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (disclaimer). I am also co-executive director of the Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Data Center and co-editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics. I study cities, regions, and growth.
Curriculum Vitae (July 2020) Phone: (215) 574-3441 Recent updatesCall for papers for the Twelfth Annual Conference on Urban and Regional Economics, online December 10-12, 2020. Application deadline is October 2, 2020. 23 July 2020 Jeff Brinkman and I published a short summary of our working paper Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways in Cityscape, "Early Interstate Policy and Its Effects on Central Cities" 14 July 2020 My article with Ina Ganguli and Nick Reynolds, "The Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences," was published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 10 April 2020 I posted a new version of my working paper Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways. 10 April 2020 I've recently posted two new working papers: The Well-Being of Nations: Estimating Welfare from International Migration and Freeway Revolts!. 03 September 2019 Working papersThe Well-Being of Nations: Estimating Welfare from International Migration
Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways Regional Resilience
Peer-reviewed publications
Population Density and Local Food Market Channels
with Jeffrey K. O'Hara
The Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences Natural Amenities, Neighborhood Dynamics, and Persistence in the Spatial Distribution of Income
with Sanghoon Lee
Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities
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
Summary pieces, invited articles, and conference proceedingsEarly Interstate Policy and Its Effects on Central Cities with Jeffrey BrinkmanCityscape 22:2 (2020), 81-86. Understanding Gentrification’s Causes: What do three centuries of Philadelphia history tell us about today’s changing neighborhoods?
What Have We Learned About the Causes of Recent Gentrification? with Jackelyn Hwang History and the Sizes of Cities with Hoyt Bleakley
The Puzzling Persistence of Place
The Paper Trail of Knowledge Transfers
Geography, History, Economies of Density, and the Location of Cities
Urban Productivity Advantages from Job Search and Matching
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" (2018), 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. LinksSome collected advice Masayuki Kudamatsu's tips for economists. Don Davis on how to find the right topic. Melissa Dell's GIS advice for economists. Gentzkow and Shapiro on code and data practices. Keith Head's Introduction "Formula" and more advice. Mensh and Kording's ten simple rules for structuring papers. Jesse Shapiro on how to give an applied micro talk and four steps to an applied micro paper. Berk, Harvey and Hirschleifer on how to write an effective referee report. Claus Wilke on how to prepare an article for resubmission. Last updated July 23, 2020 |