NBER Papers on Urban Economics Working Group

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2022
w29927 Eric Chyn
Diego Daruich

An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children
w29925 Michael Bailey
Drew M. Johnston
Martin Koenen
Theresa Kuchler
Dominic Russel
Johannes Stroebel

The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
w29900 Robert Huang
Matthew E. Kahn

An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics
w29836 Michael T. Cassidy
Janet Currie

The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court: Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program
w29789 Matias Giaccobasso
Brad C. Nathan
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Alejandro Zentner

Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending
w29718 Michael Coury
Toru Kitagawa
Allison Shertzer
Matthew Turner

The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago
w29691 Clément de Chaisemartin
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille

Two-Way Fixed Effects and Differences-in-Differences with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: A Survey
w29688 Hanming Fang
Jing Wu
Rongjie Zhang
Li-An Zhou

Understanding the Resurgence of the SOEs in China: Evidence from the Real Estate Sector
w29678 Brian Beach
John Parman
Martin H. Saavedra

Segregation and the Initial Provision of Water in the United States
w29663 Marco Leonardi
Enrico Moretti

The Agglomeration of Urban Amenities: Evidence from Milan Restaurants
w29645 Cody Cook
Lindsey Currier
Edward L. Glaeser

Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults
w29637 Michael L. Anderson
Minwoo Hyun
Jaecheol Lee

Bounds, Benefits, and Bad Air: Welfare Impacts of Pollution Alerts
2021
w29622 Kelly Bishop
Nicolai V. Kuminoff
Sophie Mathes
Alvin Murphy

The Marginal Cost of Mortality Risk Reduction: Evidence from Housing Markets
w29620 D. Mark Anderson
Kerwin Kofi Charles
Michael McKelligott
Daniel I. Rees

Estimating the Effects of Milk Inspections on Infant and Child Mortality, 1880-1910
w29588 Samuel Bazzi
Lisa Cameron
Simone G. Schaner
Firman Witoelar

Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration
w29569 Arman Khachiyan
Anthony Thomas
Huye Zhou
Gordon H. Hanson
Alex Cloninger
Tajana Rosing
Amit Khandelwal

Using Neural Networks to Predict Micro-Spatial Economic Growth
w29516 Peter Christensen
Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri
Christopher Timmins

Racial Discrimination and Housing Outcomes in the United States Rental Market
w29506 Samuel Bazzi
Andreas Ferrara
Martin Fiszbein
Thomas P. Pearson
Patrick A. Testa

The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right
w29478 Joseph S. Shapiro
Pollution Trends and US Environmental Policy: Lessons from the Last Half Century
w29465 Monica Deza
Thanh Lu
Johanna Catherine Maclean

Office-Based Mental Healthcare and Juvenile Arrests
w29456 Brad Chattergoon
William R. Kerr

Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention
w29440 Santosh Anagol
Fernando V. Ferreira
Jonah M. Rexer

Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform
w29429 Amalia R. Miller
Carmit Segal
Melissa K. Spencer

Effects of COVID-19 Shutdowns on Domestic Violence in US Cities
w29405 Darren Aiello
Asaf Bernstein
Mahyar Kargar
Ryan Lewis
Michael Schwert

The Economic Burden of Pension Shortfalls: Evidence from House Prices
w29399 Moritz Kuhn
Iourii Manovskii
Xincheng Qiu

The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction
w29385 Jeffrey P. Cohen
Cletus C. Coughlin
Jonas Crews
Stephen L. Ross

Immediate and Longer-Term Housing Market Effects of a Major U.S. Airport Closure
w29384 Jessie Handbury
Sarah Moshary

School Food Policy Affects Everyone: Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program
w29321 Tatyana Deryugina
David Molitor

The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity
w29269 Adrien Bilal
The Geography of Unemployment
w29261 Edward L. Glaeser
Urban Resilience
w29243 Bocar Ba
Patrick Bayer
Nayoung Rim
Roman Rivera
Modibo Sidibé

Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime
w29189 Song Ma
Justin Murfin
Ryan D. Pratt

Young Firms, Old Capital
w29181 Lukas Althoff
Fabian Eckert
Sharat Ganapati
Conor Walsh

The Geography of Remote Work
w29140 Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
Adam M. Guren
Timothy J. McQuade

The 2000s Housing Cycle With 2020 Hindsight: A Neo-Kindlebergerian View
w29111 Daniel Keniston
Bradley J. Larsen
Shengwu Li
J.J. Prescott
Bernardo S. Silveira
Chuan Yu

Fairness in Incomplete Information Bargaining: Theory and Widespread Evidence from the Field
w29105 Luna Yue Huang
Solomon M. Hsiang
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Evaluate the Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs
w29088 Vadim Elenev
Luis E. Quintero
Alessandro Rebucci
Emilia Simeonova

Direct and Spillover Effects from Staggered Adoption of Health Policies: Evidence from COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders
w29084 Xavier Giroud
Simone Lenzu
Quinn Maingi
Holger Mueller

Propagation and Amplification of Local Productivity Spillovers
w29078 Jacques-François Thisse
Matthew Turner
Philip Ushchev

A Unified Theory of Cities
w29071 Michael L. Anderson
Lucas W. Davis

Uber and Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities
w29053 Patrick M. Kline
Evan K. Rose
Christopher R. Walters

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers
w29049 Peter Christensen
Christopher Timmins

The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market
w29045 Morris Davis
Jesse M. Gregory

Place-Based Redistribution in Location Choice Models
w29038 Joseph J. Sabia
Dhaval M. Dave
Fawaz Alotaibi
Daniel I. Rees

Is Recreational Marijuana a Gateway to Harder Drug Use and Crime?
w29012 Panle Jia Barwick
Shanjun Li
Andrew R. Waxman
Jing Wu
Tianli Xia

Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting
w28993 Joseph Gyourko
Jacob Krimmel

The Impact of Local Residential Land Use Restrictions on Land Values Across and Within Single Family Housing Markets
w28966 Christopher Esposito
Edward E. Leamer
Jerry Nickelsburg

Who Paid Los Angeles' Minimum Wage? A Side-by-Side Minimum Wage Experiment in Los Angeles County
w28953 Eric Chyn
Lawrence F. Katz

Neighborhoods Matter: Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects
w28932 Alberto Bisin
Andrea Moro

Spatial-SIR with Network Structure and Behavior: Lockdown Rules and the Lucas Critique
w28928 Vittorio Bassi
Raffaela Muoio
Tommaso Porzio
Ritwika Sen
Esau Tugume

Achieving Scale Collectively
w28926 Haoyang Liu
Christopher Palmer

Are Stated Expectations Actual Beliefs? New Evidence for the Beliefs Channel of Investment Demand
w28895 Fabian Kindermann
Julia Le Blanc
Monika Piazzesi
Martin Schneider

Learning about Housing Cost: Survey Evidence from the German House Price Boom
w28876 Arjun Ramani
Nicholas Bloom

The Donut Effect of Covid-19 on Cities
w28875 Jeffrey Clemens
Stan Veuger

Politics and the Distribution of Federal Funds: Evidence from Federal Legislation in Response to COVID-19
w28861 Bruce D. Meyer
Angela Wyse
Alexa Grunwaldt
Carla Medalia
Derek Wu

Learning about Homelessness Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data
w28851 Weiran Huang
Ashlyn Nelson
Stephen Ross

Foreclosure Spillovers within broad Neighborhoods
w28847 Elizabeth Ananat
Shihe Fu
Stephen Ross

Agglomeration Economies and Race Specific Spillovers
w28839 Melissa C. Chow
Teresa C. Fort
Christopher Goetz
Nathan Goldschlag
James Lawrence
Elisabeth Ruth Perlman
Martha Stinson
T. Kirk White

Redesigning the Longitudinal Business Database
w28835 Judith A. Chevalier
Jason L. Schwartz
Yihua Su
Kevin R. Williams

Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability
w28814 Edward L. Glaeser
What Can Developing Cities Today Learn From the Urban Past?
w28806 Lars E.O. Svensson
Household Debt Overhang Did Hardly Cause a Larger Spending Fall during the Financial Crisis in the UK
w28805 Kenneth R. Ahern
The Business of City Hall
w28804 Dhaval M. Dave
Joseph J. Sabia
Samuel Safford

The Limits of Reopening Policy to Alter Economic Behavior: New Evidence from Texas
w28796 Stephen L. Ross
Tingyu Zhou

Loss Aversion in Housing Sales Prices: Evidence from Focal Point Bias
w28792 Sebastian Heise
Tommaso Porzio

The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions
w28789 Jesse Kalinowski
Matthew B. Ross
Stephen L. Ross

Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling
w28781 Stephen L. Ross
Yuan Wang

Mortgage Lenders and the Geographic Concentration of Foreclosures
w28772 Benjamin Schoefer
Oren Ziv

Productivity, Place, and Plants
w28759 Matthew E. Kahn
Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Financial Returns to Home Purchases from 2007 to 2020
w28731 Jose Maria Barrero
Nicholas Bloom
Steven J. Davis

Why Working from Home Will Stick
w28718 Catherine Balfe
Patrick Button
Mary Penn
David Schwegman

Infrequent Identity Signals and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies
w28675 Arpit Gupta
Vrinda Mittal
Jonas Peeters
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Flattening the Curve: Pandemic-Induced Revaluation of Urban Real Estate
w28670 Jeffrey Clemens
Benedic N. Ippolito
Stan Veuger

Medicaid and Fiscal Federalism During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w28637 Anne Brockmeyer
Alejandro Estefan
Karina Ramírez Arras
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato

Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico
w28633 Jeanne Lafortune
Ethan G. Lewis
José Pablo Martínez
José Tessada

Changing Returns to Scale in Manufacturing 1880-1930: The Rise of (Skilled) Labor?
w28629 Alexander Chudik
M. Hashem Pesaran
Alessandro Rebucci

COVID-19 Time-varying Reproduction Numbers Worldwide: An Empirical Analysis of Mandatory and Voluntary Social Distancing
w28622 Morgan C. Williams Jr.
Nathan Weil
Elizabeth A. Rasich
Jens Ludwig
Hye Chang
Sophia Egrari

Body-Worn Cameras in Policing: Benefits and Costs
w28597 Jeremy Atack
Robert A. Margo
Paul Rhode

Industrialization and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century America
w28594 Matthew Freedman
David Neumark
Shantanu Khanna

Combining Rules and Discretion in Economic Development Policy: Evidence on the Impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit
w28580 William N. Goetzmann
Christophe Spaenjers
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Real and Private-Value Assets
w28573 Matthew Freedman
Shantanu Khanna
David Neumark

JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents
w28572 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences
w28555 David Neumark
Maysen Yen

Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Policies in California and Nationwide: Results from a Pre-specified Analysis Plan
w28541 Jaymee Sheng
Anup Malani
Ashish Goel
Purushotham Botla

Does Mobility Explain Why Slums Were Hit Harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?
w28526 Jan Brueckner
Matthew E. Kahn
Gary C. Lin

A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?
w28516 Gabriel E. Kreindler
Yuhei Miyauchi

Measuring Commuting and Economic Activity inside Cities with Cell Phone Records
w28509 Sari Pekkala Kerr
William R. Kerr

Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures
w28508 Morris A. Davis
Jesse M. Gregory
Daniel A. Hartley
Kegon T.K. Tan

Neighborhood Effects and Housing Vouchers
w28483 Christopher T. Stanton
Pratyush Tiwari

Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work
w28476 David Cuberes
Klaus Desmet
Jordan Rappaport

Urban Growth Shadows
w28466 José-Luis Cruz
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

The Economic Geography of Global Warming
w28461 Morris A. Davis
Andra C. Ghent
Jesse M. Gregory

The Work-from-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences
w28454 David J. Harding
Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Greg J. Duncan
Lisa A. Gennetian
Lawrence F. Katz
Ronald C. Kessler
Jeffrey R. Kling
Matthew Sciandra
Jens Ludwig

Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Non-Experimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults
w28410 Dhaval M. Dave
Drew McNichols
Joseph J. Sabia

Political Violence, Risk Aversion, and Non-Localized Disease Spread: Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Riot
w28414 Robert W. Fairlie
Frank M. Fossen

Sales Losses in the First Quarter of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from California Administrative Data
w28401 Gaurav Khanna
Wenquan Liang
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Ran Song

The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China
w28394 Kay Jowers
Christopher Timmins
Nrupen Bhavsar
Qihui Hu
Julia Marshall

Housing Precarity & the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacts of Utility Disconnection and Eviction Moratoria on Infections and Deaths Across US Counties
w28393 Edward Asiedu
Dean Karlan
Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio
Christopher R. Udry

A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers
w28385 Cecile Gaubert
Patrick M. Kline
Damián Vergara
Danny Yagan

Trends in U.S. Spatial Inequality: Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty
w28351 Allison Shertzer
Tate Twinam
Randall P. Walsh

Zoning and Segregation in Urban Economic History
w28337 Cecile Gaubert
Patrick M. Kline
Danny Yagan

Place-Based Redistribution

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