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Can You Learn About Your Parents from the Internet?
Can You Learn About Your Parents from the Internet?
Dec 30th
James Bond is Shaken and Stirred in a NYC Lawsuit
James Bond is Shaken and Stirred in a NYC Lawsuit
Dec 29th
Green Homes: A Short Debate on Life-Cycle Analysis
Green Homes: A Short Debate on Life-Cycle Analysis
Dec 24th
EBAY and the Deadweight Loss from Christmas
EBAY and the Deadweight Loss from Christmas
Dec 24th
Do you Read the Berkeley Daily Planet?
Do you Read the Berkeley Daily Planet?
Dec 23rd
Do Greens Drive Hummers?
Do Greens Drive Hummers?
Dec 18th
Revitalizing Downtown Berkeley
Revitalizing Downtown Berkeley
Dec 17th
Vacation in Berkeley
Vacation in Berkeley
Dec 13th
Shifting Racial and Ethnic Demographics at Los Angeles Public High Schools from 1980 to 2006: Implications for Sports Teams and the Median Consumer
Shifting Racial and Ethnic Demographics at Los Angeles Public High Schools from 1980 to 2006: Implications for Sports Teams and the Median Consumer
Dec 12th
Harvard as a Brand Name: Would JFK Support this Change?
Harvard as a Brand Name: Would JFK Support this Change?
Dec 11th
Surviving POW Camps
Surviving POW Camps
Dec 10th
Greenhouse Gases Versus Nuclear Power Risk in Suburban NYC: Pick Your Poison
Greenhouse Gases Versus Nuclear Power Risk in Suburban NYC: Pick Your Poison
Dec 10th
Opponents of L.A Road Pricing Speak Up
Opponents of L.A Road Pricing Speak Up
Dec 9th
The End of Greenhouse Gas "Free-Riding"?
The End of Greenhouse Gas "Free-Riding"?
Dec 7th
New Yorkers Defend Pigeons at City Hall
New Yorkers Defend Pigeons at City Hall
Dec 3rd
Counter-Factuals
Counter-Factuals
Dec 3rd
Negative Externalities Caused by Trade: The Case of Chicken Fat
Negative Externalities Caused by Trade: The Case of Chicken Fat
Nov 28th
Reference Points and Climate
Reference Points and Climate
Nov 28th
Toliet to the Tap? Increasing the Western Water Supply Through Technological Advance
Toliet to the Tap? Increasing the Western Water Supply Through Technological Advance
Nov 27th
Why is Chicago Pursuing a "Green" Alley Pavement Program?
Why is Chicago Pursuing a "Green" Alley Pavement Program?
Nov 26th
Santa Monica Airport Should Vanish! Noise and Air Pollution in Residential Communities --- A Coasian Conundrum
Santa Monica Airport Should Vanish! Noise and Air Pollution in Residential Communities --- A Coasian Conundrum
Nov 24th
How Nasty is Cigar Smoke? A Canadian Reseacher Goes Undercover to Find Out
How Nasty is Cigar Smoke? A Canadian Reseacher Goes Undercover to Find Out
Nov 24th
A Younger Economist with Hair
Nov 21st
Beware the Contents of a Box
Beware the Contents of a Box
Nov 21st
A New Jersey Suburban Enclave that Doesn't Feel Like Sprawl
A New Jersey Suburban Enclave that Doesn't Feel Like Sprawl
Nov 19th
Pollution Havens: Evidence from China
Pollution Havens: Evidence from China
Nov 18th
Why Is Santa Monica Real Estate So Expensive?
Why Is Santa Monica Real Estate So Expensive?
Nov 17th
A Very Successful UCLA Graduate Believes in the Carnegie Conjecture
A Very Successful UCLA Graduate Believes in the Carnegie Conjecture
Nov 16th
Information Technology and Efficient Government
Information Technology and Efficient Government
Nov 15th
Hey Hey It's the Urban Monkeys
Hey Hey It's the Urban Monkeys
Nov 14th
Do Pigeons Threaten NYC's Quality of Life?
Do Pigeons Threaten NYC's Quality of Life?
Nov 13th
Is Government Efficient? Evidence from Commercial Building Energy Consumption
Is Government Efficient? Evidence from Commercial Building Energy Consumption
Nov 12th
Corporate Environmentalism and Cutting Out the Middleman: The Case of the Eagles (the Rock Band)
Corporate Environmentalism and Cutting Out the Middleman: The Case of the Eagles (the Rock Band)
Nov 11th
A Solar Power Visionary and the Slow Diffusion of His Ideas
A Solar Power Visionary and the Slow Diffusion of His Ideas
Nov 11th
Columbia University's Slow Mail System
Columbia University's Slow Mail System
Nov 9th
Sharing Common Space in Big Cities
Sharing Common Space in Big Cities
Nov 9th
Should Bloggers Spend More Time Writing Academic Papers?
Should Bloggers Spend More Time Writing Academic Papers?
Nov 5th
Can Batman Improve Hong Kong's Water Quality?
Can Batman Improve Hong Kong's Water Quality?
Nov 4th
Could Green Cities "Hum" With New Development?
Could Green Cities "Hum" With New Development?
Nov 3rd
Could a Long Hollywood Strike Lower Los Angeles Home Prices?
Could a Long Hollywood Strike Lower Los Angeles Home Prices?
Nov 2nd
Venezuela and the "Anti-Pigou" Club: The Consequences of Cheap Gas
Venezuela and the "Anti-Pigou" Club: The Consequences of Cheap Gas
Oct 30th
The Battle of the Green Cars: Tax Credits, Price of Gasoline and Environmentalism
The Battle of the Green Cars: Tax Credits, Price of Gasoline and Environmentalism
Oct 29th
Is the Recent Environmentalism Surge a Fad that will Pass?
Is the Recent Environmentalism Surge a Fad that will Pass?
Oct 25th
Alternatives to Gasoline: Pros and Cons
Alternatives to Gasoline: Pros and Cons
Oct 24th
Is Malibu a Good Place to Live?
Is Malibu a Good Place to Live?
Oct 22nd
Why Are Serious Economists Not Quoted in Public Policy Pieces?
Why Are Serious Economists Not Quoted in Public Policy Pieces?
Oct 21st
Destined for UTube?
Destined for UTube?
Oct 20th
Is Harvard Becoming "Greener" Over Time?
Is Harvard Becoming "Greener" Over Time?
Oct 19th
My Cable TV Debut
My Cable TV Debut
Oct 19th
Santa Monica AltCar Expo on friday 10/19/2007
Santa Monica AltCar Expo on friday 10/19/2007
Oct 17th
Forget UCLA Basketball, Focus on the Ziman Real Estate Center
Forget UCLA Basketball, Focus on the Ziman Real Estate Center
Oct 16th
Home Insurance and Climate Change
Home Insurance and Climate Change
Oct 16th
A Future at the Anderson Forecast?
A Future at the Anderson Forecast?
Oct 15th
Did Al Gore Merit a Nobel Peace Prize?
Did Al Gore Merit a Nobel Peace Prize?
Oct 14th
Richard Green's Urban Economics Blog
Richard Green's Urban Economics Blog
Oct 13th
UCLA Research on Faculty-Student Dating
UCLA Research on Faculty-Student Dating
Oct 12th
UCLA Faculty Position in "Climate Change": An Infomercial
UCLA Faculty Position in "Climate Change": An Infomercial
Oct 12th
Life in the Big City: Bums, Revitalizing Buffalo and Nepotism
Life in the Big City: Bums, Revitalizing Buffalo and Nepotism
Oct 11th
Should Professors be Replaced by Video Games? The Case of Green Lessons from the New Version of SimCity
Should Professors be Replaced by Video Games? The Case of Green Lessons from the New Version of SimCity
Oct 10th
Does Relationship Stress Cause Bad Health?
Does Relationship Stress Cause Bad Health?
Oct 8th
New Environmental Policy Blog at Resources for the Future
New Environmental Policy Blog at Resources for the Future
Oct 8th
Will the 2008 U.S Presidential Election Influence Who Wins the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics?
Will the 2008 U.S Presidential Election Influence Who Wins the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics?
Oct 8th
Congestion and "Affordable" Housing in Los Angeles
Congestion and "Affordable" Housing in Los Angeles
Oct 7th
Carbon Copies of Economists: Evidence from Google Images
Carbon Copies of Economists: Evidence from Google Images
Oct 4th
Bucharest Romania: A Future Superstar City?
Bucharest Romania: A Future Superstar City?
Oct 4th
A $274 Billion Dollar Makeover of our Water Works System
A $274 Billion Dollar Makeover of our Water Works System
Oct 3rd
Expressing One's Environmentalism in Day to Day Life
Expressing One's Environmentalism in Day to Day Life
Sep 30th
The Perils of Reverse Commuting Using Public Transit
The Perils of Reverse Commuting Using Public Transit
Sep 29th
Solar Roofs as Conspicuous Consumption
Solar Roofs as Conspicuous Consumption
Sep 25th
Decentralization of Public Goods Provision: The Case of Los Angeles Tree Planting
Decentralization of Public Goods Provision: The Case of Los Angeles Tree Planting
Sep 24th
Can a Retired Berkeley Professor Rebuild New Orleans?
Can a Retired Berkeley Professor Rebuild New Orleans?
Sep 22nd
National and City Quality of Life Rankings Published in October 2007 Reader's Digest
National and City Quality of Life Rankings Published in October 2007 Reader's Digest
Sep 21st
Zoning in Mexico City
Zoning in Mexico City
Sep 20th
A New Bill of Rights?
A New Bill of Rights?
Sep 19th
Here Comes the Sun
Here Comes the Sun
Sep 18th
Do People Fear Heat Waves Too Little?
Do People Fear Heat Waves Too Little?
Sep 17th
Absorbing Growth Without Browning the City or Region
Absorbing Growth Without Browning the City or Region
Sep 15th
Extra Reading for those with spare time
Extra Reading for those with spare time
Sep 14th
A Day in the Life of a Los Angeles Economist
A Day in the Life of a Los Angeles Economist
Sep 13th
Would Higher Gasoline Prices Help Us Lose Weight?
Would Higher Gasoline Prices Help Us Lose Weight?
Sep 12th
Would Dick Cheney Be an Effective Mayor of Santa Cruz, CA?
Would Dick Cheney Be an Effective Mayor of Santa Cruz, CA?
Sep 12th
Apartment Owners as a Forgotten Interest Group with An Incentive to Fight for Greener Chinese Cities
Apartment Owners as a Forgotten Interest Group with An Incentive to Fight for Greener Chinese Cities
Sep 11th
Close to the World Trade Center Site: A "Consumer City" Renaissance
Close to the World Trade Center Site: A "Consumer City" Renaissance
Sep 10th
Publishing in Reader's Digest and the American Economic Review in the Same Month: Should I be Proud of That?
Publishing in Reader's Digest and the American Economic Review in the Same Month: Should I be Proud of That?
Sep 7th
Did 9/11/2001 Cause Significant Public Health Damage to Ground Zero Workers?
Did 9/11/2001 Cause Significant Public Health Damage to Ground Zero Workers?
Sep 7th
The Tragedy of the Commons and Disposing of Hiker Poop
The Tragedy of the Commons and Disposing of Hiker Poop
Sep 6th
Reviews of my Green Cities Book: Small Sample Research (N=3)
Reviews of my Green Cities Book: Small Sample Research (N=3)
Sep 4th
Khrushchev's Obituary: Lessons for Ambitious People?
Khrushchev's Obituary: Lessons for Ambitious People?
Sep 3rd
Urban Peepers and High Stakes Testing
Urban Peepers and High Stakes Testing
Aug 30th
Economists versus Psychologists: A Case Study for Telling Us Apart
Economists versus Psychologists: A Case Study for Telling Us Apart
Aug 28th
Insurance Premiums as Market Signals; Implications for Adapting to Climate Change
Insurance Premiums as Market Signals; Implications for Adapting to Climate Change
Aug 25th
Does Child Obesity Cause School Absences? Correlation versus Causation?
Does Child Obesity Cause School Absences? Correlation versus Causation?
Aug 22nd
Big Dig Redux? How Would You Minimize Corruption in Big City Infrastructure Projects?
Big Dig Redux? How Would You Minimize Corruption in Big City Infrastructure Projects?
Aug 19th
My New Favorite Newspaper: The Ottawa Citizen
My New Favorite Newspaper: The Ottawa Citizen
Aug 17th
Public Relations and the Modern Academic
Public Relations and the Modern Academic
Aug 17th
Some Arithmetic on the Cost of NYC Traffic Congestion
Some Arithmetic on the Cost of NYC Traffic Congestion
Aug 14th
Could Energy Economics be the Next "Big Thing" in academic economics?
Could Energy Economics be the Next "Big Thing" in academic economics?
Aug 13th
Renters of the World Unite: May Interest Rates Keep Rising!
Renters of the World Unite: May Interest Rates Keep Rising!
Aug 12th
Do Public Officials Live a "Green Life" in Private? The Case of Los Angeles
Do Public Officials Live a "Green Life" in Private? The Case of Los Angeles
Aug 10th
An Old Debate About "Sustainable Growth" Between Paul Romer and Paul Ehrlich
An Old Debate About "Sustainable Growth" Between Paul Romer and Paul Ehrlich
Aug 9th
My Research and My Books
My Research and My Books
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