Local Revenue Hills: Evidence from Four U.S. Cities

The economic value of cultural diversity: evidence from US cities

What are theeconomic consequences toU.S. natives of thegrowingdiversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected bycultural diversity asmeasured by diversity of countries of birth ofU.S. residents?Wedocument in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born increased between 1970 and 1990, experiencedasign...

Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States

The Impact of Hurricanes on Housing Prices: Evidence from US Coastal Cities

We investigate the effect of hurricane strikes on housing prices in US coastal cities. To this end, we construct a new index of hurricane destruction which varies over time and space. Using this index and an annual, two equation, dynamic equilibrium correction panel model with area and time fixed effects, we model the effects of hurricanes on real house process and real incomes. In our model hu...

Cities in American Federalism: Evidence on State-Local Government Conflict from a Survey of Mayors

Previous scholarship on American federalism has largely focused on the national government’s increasingly conflictual relationship with the states. While some studies have explored the rise of mandates at the state level, there has been comparatively less attention on state-local relationships. Using a new survey of mayors, we explore variations in local government attitudes towards their state...

Airborne particulate matter and mortality: timescale effects in four US cities.

While time-series studies have consistently provided evidence for an effect of particulate air pollution on mortality, uncertainty remains as to the extent of the life-shortening implied by those associations. In this paper, the authors estimate the association between air pollution and mortality using different timescales of variation in the air pollution time series to gain further insight in...