Environmental and Urban Economics

Green Vocational Training in Future California High Schools?

Predictions for 2010

Proof that There are Free $20 Bills on the Ground

My Interview Published in the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's New "Forefront" Magazine

Climate Change Research Cash (but Not for Clunkers)

"Proof" that California has a Bright Future

What Happens Next If Copenhagen Flunks?

The Transition to Smart Meters as a Test of our Love for the Status Quo

Environmentalism Embraced at an Early Age

Vin Diesel Just Jogged by My House

Can Economic Analysis Inform the Carbon Mitigation Policy Debate?

Unexpected Costs of Geothermal Power and the Art of Seduction

Not Cool! Facebook Doesn't Lie About One's Past

Six Members of the British Parliament Visit the UCLA Institute of the Environment

Tiger Woods Offers Economists a Test of Our Theory of Labor Supply

Copenhagen and International Carbon Politics

The End of the Era of Academic Free Agency?

Coda Automotive Visits UCLA's Institute of the Environment

The Return of a Minor League Blogger

Is Time Passing Too Quickly?

Tyler Cowen on China and Transparency

Credible Foreign Policy and Basic Game Theory: The Cases of Israel and Honduras

The U.S Carbon Legislation: "Demonstrate Resolve"

The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times Need to Study Algebra Again

We Are All Keynesians Now

Green Buildings Conference at UC Berkeley Next Week

The Life and Death of Turkeys

Green Harvard Battles Allston Rats

UCLA Expertise on Climate Change

Economics Humor

The Environmental Consequences of Long Lived Durable Capital

New Research on the Role of "Good Schools" Causing a Reduction in the Propensity to Commit Crime

Academic Macro Economics Just Keeps Getting Trickier

Leading Indicators of West LA's Economic Recovery

How Do You Grow Your Own Miniature David Brooks?

National Commitments to CO2 Targets: First Mover Advantage Due To Thermal Underwear

UCLA Pollution Research Bolsters the Case for Closing Santa Monica Airport

Cash for Caulkers Redux and Anticipating Behavioral Responses to the Embedded Incentives

Some Thoughts on Cash for Caulkers

Productive Furlough Days

New Intellectual Property Created at UCLA

The Consequences of Smoking Bans at Columbia University: Another Test of the Pollution Havens Hypothesis?

Famous for Robbing the Famous: Rent Seeking in the Modern Los Angeles Economy

Ambient Lead Pollution in China

This Week's Lexington Column in The Economist

Can Economists Learn from Tao's Example? Will Academic Economics Become Open Source?

Measuring the Output of Economists

The New York Post is a Leading Academic Source for Ideas and Quotes

My Father Wins a NYU Teaching Award

Evan Smith Reinvents Texas News Coverage

Good Luck in the Big City

The "Treatment Effect" of Doctors

Ken Caldeira's Congressional Testimony on Geoengineering

Is Brooklyn a "Green City"? New Cement Production in Red Hook

The Good Life: A Harvard Case Study

Cost Overuns and the Denver Rail System

Will LeBron James Move to the Knicks? A Test of Whether the Internet Substitutes for Big Cities

Take Your Son to Work Day

Some Thoughts on the Superfreakonomics Carbon Controversy

How Do You Generate Demand for a Home Priced at Over $10 Million?

The City/Suburban Carbon Footprint Differential and the Implicit Subsidies in the Tax Code: How Do OP-ED Readers Respond to Economic Logic?

An Arbitrage Opportunity?

Are You Funnier than the Late Night Comics? The Case of Climate Change's Impacts

Carbon Pricing Will Help Warren Buffett Get Rich From Investing in Railroads

My New Favorite Journal: Reviews in History

Geoengineering's Debutante Ball

Another New York City to Los Angeles Convert

A Case Study for Elinor Ostrom's 2009 Nobel Speech?

Stanford University's Carbon Footprint: Is Golf Causing Climate Change?

The Future of Research Economics

What are Economists Good For?

My First History Publication

New York State Confronts The Energy Suppy/Natural Capital Protection Tradeoff

Ed Glaeser's Tribute to John Meyer

A "Natural Experiment" on Local Human Capital Spillovers at Columbia University?

What Do Other Academics Do All Day?

The Future of Macro?

My Carbon Debate on Japanese National NHK TV

Job Opening at UCLA's Institute of the Environment: Asst. Prof Focused on "Energy and the Environment"

My Debut in a Chinese Newspaper

Trust and Kidney Exchange at UCLA

Is Public Support for Tackling Global Warming Cooling?

Could Public Transit Soon Become Even Slower Relative to Car Trips?

John Meyer

Should the National Science Foundation Fund Social Science Research?

The Fiscal Impact of California's AB 32

Geoengineering and the Economics of Climate Change

Beijing Air Pollution Dynamics and the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Santa Monica Embraces Smart Public Policy!

$ 10,000 Per Square Foot in a Nice Tower in Hong Kong

The Traffic Congestion/Air Pollution Nexus: Reduce Infant Mortality By Introducing the EZ Pass

Do You Want to Buy Nicholas Cage's Home?

Smarter Cities: New Datasets Generated by City Governments and the Nerds Who Love Them

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys Doesn't Recognize Me at Little Holmby Park

The Year 2036 Offers a Test of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis

The Carbon Footprint of Pets

UCI/UCLA/USC First Real Estate Research Day

Smart Buildings will Shrink Our Carbon Footprint

Do Charter Cities Cause Increased Investment in Skill Formation?

The "Green" Consequences of Introducing the Plug-In Prius by 2012