Environmental and Urban Economics

Tomorrow, the University of California Press will publish my Going Remote book.  In February 2021, Johns Hopkins Press published my Co-authored "Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities" and in March 2021, Yale University Press published my book; "Adapting to Climate Change".

Why did I write these 600 total pages of stuff?

The Ongoing Challenge faced by Baltimore, Cleveland and Detroit

I spent two years working at Johns Hopkins University and I lived in downtown Baltimore for a year before the pandemic hit.  I wrote the Unlocking book because I recognized that I was living in a city that was stuck in a poverty trap.

The New York Times has published a good opinion piece by a Professor of English on the unintended consequences of federal subsidies and regulations for living in flood plains.

In this brief piece, I am not talking about surviving a flood.  Instead, I will discuss how flood risk (ex-ante) and flooding affects the real estate market and the distribution of income.

This will be a "big think" blog post that shares my thinking about this March 2022 Nature Human Behavior paper titled "The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research".

Permit me to focus on one example.  Consider a sample of 5,000 equally talented and ambitious 18 year olds.  Each has graduated from High School and each is considering applying to the University of California.  The students differ that some are Asian and some are Hispanic.