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Praise for California
Praise for California
Dec 21st
Pick Your Poison: "Oil Dependence" or Ambient Particulates
Pick Your Poison: "Oil Dependence" or Ambient Particulates
Dec 18th
Metro Areas Morphing into CMSAs: Implications for Local Labor Markets
Metro Areas Morphing into CMSAs: Implications for Local Labor Markets
Dec 15th
Moving West: A Tufts to UCLA Transition
Moving West: A Tufts to UCLA Transition
Dec 15th
MAYOR BLOOMBERG DELIVERS SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND GOALS FOR NEW YORK CITY THROUGH 2030
MAYOR BLOOMBERG DELIVERS SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND GOALS FOR NEW YORK CITY THROUGH 2030
Dec 14th
Harvard Debates the Benefits of the Legacy Admissions Edge
Harvard Debates the Benefits of the Legacy Admissions Edge
Dec 13th
To Conserve on Natural Resource Consumption: Expected Prices Must be Positive!
To Conserve on Natural Resource Consumption: Expected Prices Must be Positive!
Dec 12th
Ed Glaeser says "Charge for Congestion"
Ed Glaeser says "Charge for Congestion"
Dec 11th
Reducing Big City Traffic Congestion: Lessons from London
Reducing Big City Traffic Congestion: Lessons from London
Dec 10th
When Bioterrorism was no big deal
When Bioterrorism was no big deal
Dec 8th
Urban Tourism by Demographic Group
Urban Tourism by Demographic Group
Dec 8th
Do Rats Threaten New York City's Quality of Life?
Do Rats Threaten New York City's Quality of Life?
Dec 5th
Do Immigrants Make Cities Safer?
Do Immigrants Make Cities Safer?
Dec 4th
Anti-Climate Change Regulation Requires a Salient Event? Justice Scalia asks "When is the Cataclysm?"
Anti-Climate Change Regulation Requires a Salient Event? Justice Scalia asks "When is the Cataclysm?"
Nov 30th
Green Cities Cracks Into one "Top 10" List
Green Cities Cracks Into one "Top 10" List
Nov 29th
Ed Glaeser Takes on Tom Wolfe
Ed Glaeser Takes on Tom Wolfe
Nov 29th
70,080 Hours of Marriage
70,080 Hours of Marriage
Nov 27th
A New Urban Economics Blog
A New Urban Economics Blog
Nov 26th
A Superstar City Prepares to Grow
A Superstar City Prepares to Grow
Nov 26th
Present Discounted Value Calculations and the Benefits of Fighting Climate Change
Present Discounted Value Calculations and the Benefits of Fighting Climate Change
Nov 25th
“Most economics departments are like country clubs” says a Nobel Laureate. Is This True?
“Most economics departments are like country clubs” says a Nobel Laureate. Is This True?
Nov 17th
Milton Friedman’s Impact on my Chicago Training in Economics
Milton Friedman’s Impact on my Chicago Training in Economics
Nov 16th
Is Los Angeles Dangerous for Kahn? A test of the "Law of Small Numbers"
Is Los Angeles Dangerous for Kahn? A test of the "Law of Small Numbers"
Nov 15th
Harvard's Effort to Mitigate Climate Change
Harvard's Effort to Mitigate Climate Change
Nov 15th
Two New Environmental Economics Papers
Two New Environmental Economics Papers
Nov 15th
Finding "Green" Neighbors and Product Bundling
Finding "Green" Neighbors and Product Bundling
Nov 12th
Climate Change and Cities
Climate Change and Cities
Nov 12th
Political Cycles and their Impact on Environmental Policy: Will the Democrats Pursue An Active Climate Change Mitigation Policy?
Political Cycles and their Impact on Environmental Policy: Will the Democrats Pursue An Active Climate Change Mitigation Policy?
Nov 10th
Toliets and Public Health in LDCs
Toliets and Public Health in LDCs
Nov 10th
Kahn is Quoted in Today's London Guardian
Kahn is Quoted in Today's London Guardian
Nov 8th
My Chapter for a new London Policy Exchange Book
My Chapter for a new London Policy Exchange Book
Nov 7th
New Climate Economics
New Climate Economics
Nov 5th
What is "Frontier" Environmental Economics?
What is "Frontier" Environmental Economics?
Nov 5th
Overfishing, Tragedy of the Commons and Resource Depletion
Overfishing, Tragedy of the Commons and Resource Depletion
Nov 3rd
Is Golf a Legal Means of Achieving Racial Segregation in the Suburbs?
Is Golf a Legal Means of Achieving Racial Segregation in the Suburbs?
Nov 2nd
Kevin Murphy: Profiled in the Chicago Alumni Magazine
Kevin Murphy: Profiled in the Chicago Alumni Magazine
Nov 2nd
Halloween in the Low Density Suburbs: No Walking Door to Door
Halloween in the Low Density Suburbs: No Walking Door to Door
Oct 31st
Massachusetts Vehicle License Applications Offer a "Freakonomics" Data Set Opportunity
Massachusetts Vehicle License Applications Offer a "Freakonomics" Data Set Opportunity
Oct 31st
London's Policy Exchange to publish "Living for the City" Next Week
London's Policy Exchange to publish "Living for the City" Next Week
Oct 30th
Media Bias? Why Aren't Academic Economists Being Quoted on Climate Change Policy?
Media Bias? Why Aren't Academic Economists Being Quoted on Climate Change Policy?
Oct 30th
Preparing to Pre-Empt a World Flu Epidemic
Preparing to Pre-Empt a World Flu Epidemic
Oct 29th
Self-fulfilling Prophesies and Global Carbon Trading
Self-fulfilling Prophesies and Global Carbon Trading
Oct 28th
The Harvard Crimson's Analysis of Clean Toliets and Public Health
The Harvard Crimson's Analysis of Clean Toliets and Public Health
Oct 27th
Odd Environmental News: Treated Sewage to be Used to Build a "Natural Buffer" Near New Orleans
Odd Environmental News: Treated Sewage to be Used to Build a "Natural Buffer" Near New Orleans
Oct 23rd
Bridging Social Capital and Cultural Divides
Bridging Social Capital and Cultural Divides
Oct 18th
Behavioral Economics, Self Control and Diabetes
Behavioral Economics, Self Control and Diabetes
Oct 18th
Green Cities: The 45 Minute Lecture
Green Cities: The 45 Minute Lecture
Oct 17th
Job Suburbanization in New York City and Commuting Patterns
Job Suburbanization in New York City and Commuting Patterns
Oct 17th
Hong Kong, Air Pollution and the Coase Theorem
Hong Kong, Air Pollution and the Coase Theorem
Oct 14th
Some Thoughts on Field Experiments as a Research Methodology
Some Thoughts on Field Experiments as a Research Methodology
Oct 12th
300 Million People in the United States: The New York Times Approves
300 Million People in the United States: The New York Times Approves
Oct 11th
Unintended Consequences of Driving Restrictions: New Lessons from Mexico
Unintended Consequences of Driving Restrictions: New Lessons from Mexico
Oct 9th
Are there Too Few Prizes in Academic Economics? A Suggestion for Inflating Beyond the Nobel Prize and the Clark Medal
Are there Too Few Prizes in Academic Economics? A Suggestion for Inflating Beyond the Nobel Prize and the Clark Medal
Oct 9th
Russia Offers a Data Point for the Chicago School of Regulation
Russia Offers a Data Point for the Chicago School of Regulation
Oct 6th
Evaluating Programs to Reduce Diarrhea in rural Kenya by Improving Source Water Quality
Evaluating Programs to Reduce Diarrhea in rural Kenya by Improving Source Water Quality
Oct 5th
Don't Call it Sprawl --- A Review of Tom Bogart's new book
Don't Call it Sprawl --- A Review of Tom Bogart's new book
Oct 4th
Signaling and the Congressional Medal of Honor (The Back Cover of the October 2006 Journal of Political Economy)
Signaling and the Congressional Medal of Honor (The Back Cover of the October 2006 Journal of Political Economy)
Oct 4th
Starbucks Learns About The Cost of Hyperinflation and some "Green" Economics
Starbucks Learns About The Cost of Hyperinflation and some "Green" Economics
Oct 1st
A Berkeley Urban Design Expert's Advice for China
A Berkeley Urban Design Expert's Advice for China
Sep 28th
The "Silver Lining" of Rust Belt Decline Revisited
The "Silver Lining" of Rust Belt Decline Revisited
Sep 27th
In this age of e-mail, do academics receive interesting snail mail?
In this age of e-mail, do academics receive interesting snail mail?
Sep 26th
Big Questions in Environmental Economics
Big Questions in Environmental Economics
Sep 25th
Explaining Declining U.S Energy Consumption per $ of GNP
Explaining Declining U.S Energy Consumption per $ of GNP
Sep 20th
A Serious Dose of Environmental Economics
A Serious Dose of Environmental Economics
Sep 18th
Life Expectancy by State: Selection or Treatment? You Decide
Life Expectancy by State: Selection or Treatment? You Decide
Sep 14th
A Statistical Analysis of Library Use at the University of Chicago: A Case Study of Nerd Power!
A Statistical Analysis of Library Use at the University of Chicago: A Case Study of Nerd Power!
Sep 14th
Review Copies of Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment
Review Copies of Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment
Sep 12th
Can Fear of Air Travel Delays Increase Support for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Policy?
Can Fear of Air Travel Delays Increase Support for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Policy?
Sep 12th
The New Academic Year
The New Academic Year
Sep 10th
New Social Science Books by University of Chicago Graduates: Can Kahn Outsell Rosenblatt's study of snoring and cold feet in bed?
New Social Science Books by University of Chicago Graduates: Can Kahn Outsell Rosenblatt's study of snoring and cold feet in bed?
Sep 6th
What Do Economics Professors Do All Day?
What Do Economics Professors Do All Day?
Sep 6th
Adjustable Rate Mortgages and Behavioral Economics
Adjustable Rate Mortgages and Behavioral Economics
Sep 3rd
As of Today, Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment is Published!
As of Today, Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment is Published!
Aug 30th
California Manufacturing Battles Back against new CO2 regulation
California Manufacturing Battles Back against new CO2 regulation
Aug 29th
Is the Berkeley Daily Planet a Better Newspaper than the New York Times?
Is the Berkeley Daily Planet a Better Newspaper than the New York Times?
Aug 27th
Is Los Angeles a Green City?
Is Los Angeles a Green City?
Aug 27th
A Small Sample Field Experiment in Real Estate Search
A Small Sample Field Experiment in Real Estate Search
Aug 24th
Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment --- Chapter One as a .pdf file
Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment --- Chapter One as a .pdf file
Aug 22nd
Superstar Cities and the Middle Class Housing Squeeze
Superstar Cities and the Middle Class Housing Squeeze
Aug 21st
Information Technology Solves Government Asymmetric Information Problems
Information Technology Solves Government Asymmetric Information Problems
Aug 20th
The Merits of High Density Development in Brooklyn, NY
The Merits of High Density Development in Brooklyn, NY
Aug 19th
Majoring in Economics ==> Fame? Here is The Right Tail of the Distribution
Majoring in Economics ==> Fame? Here is The Right Tail of the Distribution
Aug 18th
Incentives to Purchase Hybrid Vehicles
Incentives to Purchase Hybrid Vehicles
Aug 15th
When Do Corporations Take "Green" Actions?
When Do Corporations Take "Green" Actions?
Aug 13th
Pigeons as Information Technology: A New Method for Monitoring Air Pollution
Pigeons as Information Technology: A New Method for Monitoring Air Pollution
Aug 13th
Inside the Economist's Mind
Inside the Economist's Mind
Aug 7th
Diary of a Mediocre Day
Diary of a Mediocre Day
Aug 6th
Cross-Country Environmental Comparisons
Cross-Country Environmental Comparisons
Aug 3rd
Answering my Blog Mail
Answering my Blog Mail
Aug 3rd
Environmental and Urban Economics Blog is One Year Old!
Environmental and Urban Economics Blog is One Year Old!
Aug 1st
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Jul 27th
Berkeley, California Rules!
Berkeley, California Rules!
Jul 26th
Is Boston the Epi-Center of Academic Economics?
Is Boston the Epi-Center of Academic Economics?
Jul 21st
Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment will be published in August 2006 by Brookings Institution Press
Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment will be published in August 2006 by Brookings Institution Press
Jul 16th
The Quality of Capitalist Products: The Role of Reputation
The Quality of Capitalist Products: The Role of Reputation
Jul 14th
Trends in Corruption in Public Works Projects: Is the "Big Dig Disaster" an Anomaly?
Trends in Corruption in Public Works Projects: Is the "Big Dig Disaster" an Anomaly?
Jul 13th
When the Rich Get Richer, what happens to the poor?
When the Rich Get Richer, what happens to the poor?
Jul 12th
The New York Times Discusses New York City
The New York Times Discusses New York City
Jul 10th
Will China's Cities be "Green" in 2050?
Will China's Cities be "Green" in 2050?
Jul 3rd
Sports Illustrated Offers an Intriguing Example of the value of New Goods: How Much Would You pay For this Device?
Sports Illustrated Offers an Intriguing Example of the value of New Goods: How Much Would You pay For this Device?
Jun 30th
My Research and My Books
My Research and My Books
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Matthew E. Kahn
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