Jeffrey LinAboutI 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 (October 2019) Phone: (215) 574-3441 Recent updatesI've recently posted two new working papers: The Well-Being of Nations: Estimating Welfare from International Migration and Freeway Revolts!. 03 September 2019 I'm hosting the 14th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association in Philadelphia. The conference is October 11-12, 2019 and registration opens soon. 12 June 2019 My article with Ina Ganguli and Nick Reynolds, "The Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences," is forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 13 May 2019 My article with Jeff O'Hara, "Population Density and Local Food Market Channels," is forthcoming at Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 04 March 2019 The Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (CURE) program has been posted. 20 November 2018 I posted data on new occupational classifications at the title level used by Census 2000 and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles in 1991 and 1977. 19 July 2018 Working papersThe Well-Being of Nations: Estimating Welfare from International Migration
Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways Regional Resilience
PublicationsThe Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences
Population Density and Local Food Market Channels
with Jeffrey K. O'Hara
Natural 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-Market Effects 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
Understanding Gentrification’s Causes: What do three centuries of Philadelphia history tell us about today’s changing neighborhoods?
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 October 21, 2019 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. |