Environmental and Urban Economics: August 2018

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How Will Houston Adapt to the High Heat?

I have moved m y blog over to Substack (and I've lost many readers). Please join me there. Here is a recent column. The Wall Street ...
My "Migration" to Substack

Dear Readers, In recent months, I have posted my public writing to my free Substack. I have such fond memories of Google Blogspot, thus...
Do Econ 101 Teachers Spend Too Much Time on the Pe...

I will be teaching Econ 101 at USC this fall. There will be at least 150 students in my class. There are several Principles textbooks I co...
Shifting Racial and Ethnic Demographics at Los Ang...

Demographic trends appear to matter in determining what products we see supplied in markets. The Los Angeles Times sports section yesterday...
Derek Jeter's Carbon Footprint

Here is a photo of the 30,000 square foot mansion that he doesn't want to talk about in Florida. As a role model, he should make publi...
Lights at Night: The Case of NYC

A team of Brown University economists have used lights at night to study economic growth around the world. You can read their paper here. ...
A Blogger Trying To Provide Public Goods

Some bloggers have suggested that one beneficial role that bloggers offer is helping readers to economize on search costs. We (the bloggers...
Shanghai's World Fair Investments = Superstar City

When I was a kid, we would drive out to Queens, NY to see my grandfather. Along the highway, we would drive past the rusting remains of the...
The Overeducated Chinese Young Person?

In 1976, Richard Freeman's book The Overeducated American was published. In a nutshell he argued that the returns to U.S college educat...
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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Matthew E. Kahn

Environmental and Urban Economics

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