In late August 2019, I move to Johns Hopkins University to become the director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative.
Each Sunday morning, my wife and I shop at the Beverly Hills Farmers Market. As we tried to drive out of the parking lot, we were stuck in a huge traffic jam. This has never happened before. I exited the car and walked up to the traffic kiosk to find out why we were stuck in traffic.
The NY Times has published a great opinion piece making the sensible argument that more local governments need to upzone. One NY reader posted the following comment.
"IN THEORY Increasing the density of homes sounds good.
"IN THEORY Increasing the density of homes sounds good.
Back in 2006, James Heckman and co-authors published an important paper on essential heterogeneity in empirical economics. A key idea they convey is to consider a case where people opt in to take a treatment such as attending college.
