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Working Papers

2009

Clusters of Entrepreneurship
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
The Complementarity between Cities and Skills
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2008

Housing Supply and Housing Bubbles
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Social Capital and Urban Growth
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Economics of Place-Making Policies
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Urban Inequality
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2007

Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Arbitrage in Housing Markets
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Chapter (2007)
Entrepreneurship and the City
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Extremism and Social Learning
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Social Interactions and Smoking
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Economics Approach to Cities
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Rise of the Sunbelt
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2006

Housing Dynamics
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Regulating Misinformation
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Researcher Incentives and Empirical Methods
NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Causes and Consequences of Land Use Regulation: Evidence from Greater Boston
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Political Economy of Warfare
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Why Does Democracy Need Education?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2005

Inequality
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Myths and Realities of American Political Geography
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Paternalism and Psychology
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Divergence of Human Capital Levels Across Cities
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Urban Colossus: Why is New York America's Largest City?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Urban Growth and Housing Supply
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking and Other Health-Related Behaviors
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Why Have Housing Prices Gone Up?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2005) View citations
See also Chapter (2006)

2004

Corruption and Reform: An Introduction
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Corruption in America
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Do Institutions Cause Growth?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Growth (2004)
Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location: The Influence of John Kain
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Urban Economics (2004)
Psychology and the Market
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2004)
Strategic Extremism: Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Chapter (2006)

2003

Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Reinventing Boston: 1640-2003
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Geography (2005)
Sprawl and Urban Growth
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The New Comparative Economics
Yale School of Management Working Papers, Yale School of Management View citations
Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2003) View citations
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Comparative Economics (2003)
The Rise of the Skilled City
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Also in Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2003) View citations
The Social Multiplier
Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2002) View citations
Why Have Americans Become More Obese?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Perspectives (2003)
Why is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in House Prices
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2002

The Benefits of the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Chapter (2003)
The Curley Effect
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Governance of Not-For-Profit Firms
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Also in Zell/Lurie Center Working Papers, Wharton School Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center, University of Pennsylvania
The Injustice of Inequality
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Monetary Economics (2003)
The Political Economy of Hatred
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2005)

2001

A Case for Quantity Regulation
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Also in Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (2001) View citations
Cities and Warfare: The Impact of Terrorism on Urban Form
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Urban Economics (2002)
Decentralized Employment and the Transformation of the American City
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Education and Religion
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Also in Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (2001) View citations
Explaining the Rise in Youth Suicide
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2000) View citations
See also Chapter (2001)
Is There a New Urbanism? The Growth of U.S. Cities in the 1990s
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Legal Origins
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2002)
Non-Market Interactions
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2000) View citations
Public Ownership in the American City
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Rise of the Regulatory State
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Literature (2003)
Urban Decline and Durable Housing
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Also in Zell/Lurie Center Working Papers, Wharton School Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center, University of Pennsylvania View citations
Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2000

Consumer City
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2000) View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Geography (2001)
The Determinants of Punishment: Deterrence, Incapacitation and Vengeance
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2000) View citations
The Economic Approach to Social Capital
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
The Social Consequences of Housing
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Housing Economics (2000)
Why Do The Poor Live In Cities?
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2000) View citations

1999

Measuring Social Interactions
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
The Geographic Concentration of Industry: Does Natural Advantage Explain Agglomeration?
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1999)
Urban Primacy and Politics
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Also in Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (1999) View citations

1998

Cities and Ethics: An Essay for Jane Jacobs
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research
Incentives and Social Capital: Are Homeowner's Better Citizens?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Also in Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (1997) View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Urban Economics (1999)
Not-For-Profit Entrepreneurs
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Also in Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (1998) View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2001)
What Do Prosecutors Maximize? An Analysis of Drug Offenders and Concurrent Jurisdiction
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
Also in JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research (1998)
Who Owns Guns? Criminals, Victims and the Culture of Violence
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1998)

1997

Geographic Concentration as a Dynamic Process
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2002)
Learning in Cities
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1997) View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Urban Economics (1999)
The Misallocation of Housing Under Rent Control
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2003)
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1999)

1991

Growth in Cities
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1992)

Journal Articles

2005

Reinventing Boston: 1630--2003
Journal of Economic Geography, 2005, 5, (2), 119-153
See also Working Paper (2003)
The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2005, 21, (1), 1-19 View citations
The Political Economy of Hatred
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005, 120, (1), 45-86 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)

2004

Do Institutions Cause Growth?
Journal of Economic Growth, 2004, 9, (3), 271-303 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)
Opportunities, race, and urban location: the influence of John Kain
Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 56, (1), 70-79
See also Working Paper (2004)
Psychology and the Market
American Economic Review, 2004, 94, (2), 408-413 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)

2003

The Misallocation of Housing Under Rent Control
American Economic Review, 2003, 93, (4), 1027-1046 View citations
See also Working Paper (1997)
The Rise of the Regulatory State
Journal of Economic Literature, 2003, 41, (2), 401-425 View citations
See also Working Paper (2001)
The impact of building restrictions on housing affordability
Economic Policy Review, 2003, (Jun), 21-39 View citations
The injustice of inequality
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2003, 50, (1), 199-222 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)
The new comparative economics
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2003, 31, (4), 595-619 View citations
See also Working Paper (2003)
Why Have Americans Become More Obese?
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2003, 17, (3), 93-118 View citations
See also Working Paper (2003)

2002

An Economic Approach to Social Capital
Economic Journal, 2002, 112, (483), 437-458 View citations
Book review: Book Review of William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth, MIT Press, July 2001
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2002, 32, (4), 543-547
Cities and Warfare: The Impact of Terrorism on Urban Form
Journal of Urban Economics, 2002, 51, (2), 205-224 View citations
See also Working Paper (2001)
Geographic Concentration As A Dynamic Process
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002, 84, (2), 193-204 View citations
See also Working Paper (1997)
Legal Origins
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117, (4), 1193-1229 View citations
See also Working Paper (2001)

2001

A Reason for Quantity Regulation
American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (2), 431-435 View citations
Cities and Skills
Journal of Labor Economics, 2001, 19, (2), 316-42 View citations
See also Working Paper (1994)
Coase Versus The Coasians
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001, 116, (3), 853-899 View citations
Consumer city
Journal of Economic Geography, 2001, 1, (1), 27-50 View citations
See also Working Paper (2000)
Not-for-profit entrepreneurs
Journal of Public Economics, 2001, 81, (1), 99-115 View citations
See also Working Paper (1998)

2000

Measuring Trust
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (3), 811-846 View citations
The Social Consequences of Housing
Journal of Housing Economics, 2000, 9, (1-2), 1-23 View citations
See also Working Paper (2000)

1999

Evidence On Growth, Increasing Returns, And The Extent Of The Market
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999, 114, (3), 1025-1045 View citations
See also Working Paper (1994)
From John Lindsay to Rudy Giuliani: the decline of the local safety net?
Economic Policy Review, 1999, (Sep), 117-132 View citations
Incentives and Social Capital: Are Homeowners Better Citizens?
Journal of Urban Economics, 1999, 45, (2), 354-384 View citations
See also Working Paper (1998)
Learning in Cities
Journal of Urban Economics, 1999, 46, (2), 254-277 View citations
See also Working Paper (1997)
Population and Economic Growth
American Economic Review, 1999, 89, (2), 145-149 View citations
The Geographic Concentration of Industry: Does Natural Advantage Explain Agglomeration?
American Economic Review, 1999, 89, (2), 311-316 View citations
See also Working Paper (1999)
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 107, (3), 455-506 View citations
See also Working Paper (1997)

1998

Are Cities Dying?
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1998, 12, (2), 139-60 View citations
Incentives, Predestination and Free Will
Economic Inquiry, 1998, 36, (3), 429-43 View citations
Information Technology and the Future of Cities
Journal of Urban Economics, 1998, 43, (1), 136-156 View citations
See also Working Paper (1996)
Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: An Economic Analysis of Interest Restrictions and Usury Laws
Journal of Law & Economics, 1998, 41, (1), 1-36
See also Working Paper (1994)
Should transfer payments be indexed to local price levels?
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1998, 28, (1), 1-20 View citations
See also Working Paper (1996)
The Los Angeles Riot and the Economics of Urban Unrest
Journal of Urban Economics, 1998, 43, (1), 52-78 View citations
Who Owns Guns? Criminals, Victims, and the Culture of Violence
American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 458-62 View citations
See also Working Paper (1998)

1997

A reconsideration of the (in)sensitivity of tests of the intertemporal allocation of consumption to near rational alternatives
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1997, 21, (7), 1173-1180 View citations
Are Ghettos Good or Bad?
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997, 112, (3), 827-72 View citations
See also Working Paper (1995)
Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach
Journal of Political Economy, 1997, 105, (5), 889-927 View citations
See also Working Paper (1994)
Self-Imposed Term Limits
Public Choice, 1997, 93, (3-4), 389-94 View citations
Thin Markets, Asymmetric Information, and Mortgage-Backed Securities
Journal of Financial Intermediation, 1997, 6, (1), 64-86 View citations

1996

Crime and Social Interactions
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996, 111, (2), 507-48 View citations
See also Working Paper (1995)
The Incentive Effects of Property Taxes on Local Governments
Public Choice, 1996, 89, (1-2), 93-111 View citations
See also Working Paper (1995)
The Transition to Free Markets: Where to Begin Privatization
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1996, 22, (1), 23-42 View citations

1995

Economic growth in a cross-section of cities
Journal of Monetary Economics, 1995, 36, (1), 117-143 View citations
See also Working Paper (1995)
Trade and Circuses: Explaining Urban Giants
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995, 110, (1), 195-227 View citations
See also Working Paper (1994)

1994

Why does schooling generate economic growth?
Economics Letters, 1994, 44, (3), 333-337 View citations

1992

Growth in Cities
Journal of Political Economy, 1992, 100, (6), 1126-52 View citations
See also Working Paper (1991)
The Cinderella Paradox Resolved
Journal of Political Economy, 1992, 100, (2), 430-32 View citations

Books

2006

Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History
NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Chapters

2007

Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?
A chapter in The Economics of Agglomeration, 2007 View citations
See also Working Paper (2007)
Introduction to "The Economics of Agglomeration"
A chapter in The Economics of Agglomeration, 2007
Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of a Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
A chapter in Entrepreneurship: Strategy and Structure, 2007 View citations

2006

Corruption and Reform: Introduction
A chapter in Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, 2006, pp 2-22 View citations
The Rise of the Fourth Estate. How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered
A chapter in Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, 2006, pp 187-230 View citations
See also Working Paper (2004)
Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?
A chapter in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2005, Volume 20, 2006, pp 1-100 View citations
See also Working Paper (2005)

2003

Introduction to "The Governance of Not-for-Profit Organizations"
A chapter in The Governance of Not-for-Profit Organizations, 2003, pp 1-44
The Benefits of the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction
A chapter in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 17, 2003, pp 37-82 View citations
See also Working Paper (2002)

2001

Explaining the Rise in Youth Suicide
A chapter in Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis, 2001, pp 219-270 View citations
See also Working Paper (2001)

Editor

The Quarterly Journal of Economics
MIT Press