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Mar 27th
What Can We Predict?
What Can We Predict?
Mar 27th
What Lessons Do We Learn from Disasters?
What Lessons Do We Learn from Disasters?
Mar 27th
A Return to Los Angeles (the March 2011 Version)
A Return to Los Angeles (the March 2011 Version)
Mar 25th
A Puzzle? Why Do No Top Female Economists Blog?
A Puzzle? Why Do No Top Female Economists Blog?
Mar 25th
Do Pregnant Smokers Cause Future Crime?
Do Pregnant Smokers Cause Future Crime?
Mar 21st
Maastricht
Maastricht
Mar 21st
Incentive Theory and the Optimal Design of "Fix it First"
Incentive Theory and the Optimal Design of "Fix it First"
Mar 21st
Ed Glaeser vs. Mike Tyson: Two Visions of the Good Life
Ed Glaeser vs. Mike Tyson: Two Visions of the Good Life
Mar 19th
University Public Relations in the "Social Networks" Era
University Public Relations in the "Social Networks" Era
Mar 19th
An American in Italy
An American in Italy
Mar 18th
Must Economists Start Reading Freud?
Must Economists Start Reading Freud?
Mar 13th
Celebrating the Growth of Megacities
Celebrating the Growth of Megacities
Mar 12th
Solar City? UCLA's Luskin Center Provides the Atlas
Solar City? UCLA's Luskin Center Provides the Atlas
Mar 11th
Evaluating Nick Stern's Conjecture that Climate Migration Could Lead to a Major War
Evaluating Nick Stern's Conjecture that Climate Migration Could Lead to a Major War
Mar 11th
The Great Stagnation? A Counter-Example From the War on Cancer
The Great Stagnation? A Counter-Example From the War on Cancer
Mar 11th
Some Thoughts About Rome and About USC and UCLA's Ongoing Competition
Some Thoughts About Rome and About USC and UCLA's Ongoing Competition
Mar 10th
What Should UCLA Invest Its Scarce Funds In?
What Should UCLA Invest Its Scarce Funds In?
Mar 9th
Ranking UCLA Faculty with Respect to Their Value Added
Ranking UCLA Faculty with Respect to Their Value Added
Mar 7th
Assessing the Risk of More Food Price Increases
Assessing the Risk of More Food Price Increases
Mar 7th
European Vacation
European Vacation
Mar 7th
Gib Metcalf Joins the Obama Administration
Gib Metcalf Joins the Obama Administration
Mar 5th
NFL Football Players Understand the Permanent Income Model of Consumption
NFL Football Players Understand the Permanent Income Model of Consumption
Mar 5th
Noise in Cities
Noise in Cities
Mar 5th
Adapting to $4 Gas
Adapting to $4 Gas
Mar 4th
The Future of Home Ownership If Fannie Mae and Freddie Vanish
The Future of Home Ownership If Fannie Mae and Freddie Vanish
Mar 4th
Can UCLA Learn from UW-Madison's "Privatization" Efforts?
Can UCLA Learn from UW-Madison's "Privatization" Efforts?
Mar 3rd
Climate Adaptation in the Past: The Case of the Mayans
Climate Adaptation in the Past: The Case of the Mayans
Mar 3rd
Contrasting Alternative Approaches for Encouraging Water Conservation
Contrasting Alternative Approaches for Encouraging Water Conservation
Mar 2nd
A Room With A View of Caracas
A Room With A View of Caracas
Mar 1st
My Research and My Books
My Research and My Books
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How Will Houston Adapt to the High Heat?
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My "Migration" to Substack
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Do Econ 101 Teachers Spend Too Much Time on the Pe...
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Shifting Racial and Ethnic Demographics at Los Ang...
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Derek Jeter's Carbon Footprint
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Lights at Night: The Case of NYC
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A Blogger Trying To Provide Public Goods
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Shanghai's World Fair Investments = Superstar City
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The Overeducated Chinese Young Person?
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How Will the Rise of WFH Help Us to Adapt to Clima...
Millions of American workers engaged in Work from Home (WFH) during the pandemic. WFH helped us to adapt to the risk of disease contagi...
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About Me
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Matthew E. Kahn
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