What do university think tanks produce? Starbucks sells coffee. Tesla sells electric vehicles? What does my 21CC at Hopkins "sell"? In my first 2.5 months at Hopkins, I have been on a listening tour as I talk to various stakeholders. I can now offer some precise thoughts.
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As the U.S enters an election year, it should not surprise people that President Trump's team will not be leading the low carbon coalition.
At Johns Hopkins, I serve as the Director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative. This week, we just released a new report titled; " Public Sector Pay Inequality Dynamics in Baltimore, Boston, and New York City".
The last few weeks have been exciting. On Wednesday October 2nd, I gave the Rice Lecture at NYU's Wagner School. I spoke about the urban economics of climate change adaptation.
In the first news issue of the fall semester, The Johns Hopkins University student newspaper has printed an excellent article about my 21st Century Cities Center. The previous director was a prominent sociologist and she focused on urban poverty issues.
How much richer would the world be if we all agreed on who has property rights to everything on the planet? If we could all (including those who are not yet born) sign a binding contract over such ownership, then there would be no need for armies or the police. There would be no violence.
The Los Angeles Times has published an interesting article focused on electricity tradeoffs. To lower wildfire risk, the state's major electric utilities may choose to cutoff grid power access at certain risky times (such as when it is very hot and dry).
Dora and I are very proud of our son.
As my term as the Chairman of USC's Economics Department ends on August 15th, I have been focusing on my new initiative at Johns Hopkins University. At JHU, I am directing the 21st Century Cities Initiative.
New Delhi will offer women free use of public transit. As this mode of transit is now cheaper, more women will ride it. In this blog post, I want to discuss how this shift in the composition of riders (that a larger % of riders will be female) affects demand.
I am stunned and deeply saddened by the news that my friend and colleague Professor Mark Kleiman has passed away. Mark was a brilliant man and a highly influential urban policy scholar. Here is his Google Scholar page.
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.
Here is the twitter page for 21CC at Johns Hopkins. I encourage you to follow our activities.
The Nobel Laureate James Tobin makes a number of wise points here about the challenge that Yale faced in the 1970s and 1980s for building up a cross-campus economics community. These sound familiar.
When John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded Imagine, I doubt that they imagined a West Coast without any land use zoning restrictions. In this blog post, I will imagine exactly this scenario. My imagination was triggered by this piece written by three friends of mine.
This podcast was recorded back in 2010. This is a recording of a talk I gave in Culver City about the economics of climate change adaptation. I focus on the system of cities and the system of neighborhoods within cities and how they compete for economic opportunity.
UC Berkeley's Dan Farber has written a very nice piece about the challenge that climate change will pose for today's 20 year olds in the year 2100. As both a concerned citizen and as the father of a 17 year old, I take such informed predictions quite seriously.
The year 2100 is 81 years from now.
The year 2100 is 81 years from now.
A constant debate in sustainability circles revolves around whether there are "limits to growth".
I will soon attend an event that will honor Professor Robert Willis of the University of Michigan and Stanford University. Here are my brief remarks;
"During my graduate studies at UChicago, I worked for Bob as a TA and as a Research Assistant. He served on my dissertation committee.
"During my graduate studies at UChicago, I worked for Bob as a TA and as a Research Assistant. He served on my dissertation committee.
Cooking recipes provide a blueprint for how to make a cake that serves 4 people. Given that there is a market for cake inputs such as sugar and eggs, you can use this blueprint to make 1 cake for 4 people or 2 cakes for 8 people.
