‼️Job alert ‼️ Econ RA Listings Join us in the beautiful Bay Area Haas School of Business for projects on housing policy, intergenerational mobility after the Civil Rights Era, and the political economy of zoning regulations. You will be mentored by Olivia Bordeu Antoine Levy 🇺🇦, & me

Another ping at this! Please send your applications, deadline 20/11. We're a strong diverse and dynamic applied microeconomics group with wide interests around public policy evaluation. Do not miss this opportunity to join us!

Can developers compensate nearby residents to win support for their housing projects? In a new JPublicPolicy article, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner and I unpack how compensation works, when it fails, and what that teaches us about symbolic attitudes and housing policy. 1/11

🧵A brief thread on today’s devastating flash floods in Valencia, Spain. ⬇️

📢#CallforPapers for the @iseg Lisbon Urban and Public Economics Workshop 🇵🇹 Keynotes: Donald R. Davis and Jessie Handbury 🗓️Submissions: January 10th to [email protected] and [email protected] iseg.ulisboa.pt/en/event/lisbo… Please RT #EconTwitter

1/ Excited to share a thread about my JMP: The Impact of Institutional Investors on Homeownership and Neighborhood Access joshuacoven.github.io/assets/JoshuaC…

CFP: Real Estate Economics Special Issue on Housing and Housing Policy -- Submissions open until Feb. 1, 2025. areuea.memberclicks.net/index.php?opti…

🏠Aquest dimecres, Hector Blanco ens fa #5centims sobre habitatges públics, l'efecte que tenen als barris on es construeixen i els problemes que pot comportar la demolició d'habitatge públic, tot exemplificant-ho amb casos reals als Estats Units. 5centims.cat/limpacte-de-lh…

Recentment, s'han anunciat varies mesures per incrementar l'oferta d'habitatge públic a Catalunya i Espanya. Avui escric a 5centims.cat sobre els possibles efectes als barris on es construeix amb algunes lliçons del cas dels Estats Units.👇

Me, Mahesh Karra and david canning wrote a short post on the main insights from our recent Demography Journal. In the short term, family planning services cause improvements in children’s nutritional status and cognitive development. Read here: niussp.org/family-and-hou…

More hopeful findings from Hector Blanco & Noémie Sportiche: Studying "builder's remedy" projects in MA, they find (1) only largest projects reduce nearby home values; (2) no sig effect on neighbors' voting; (3) little induced exit. 1/4 h/t Salim Furth

Voucher holders are often required to wait out bureaucratic box checking before they can move into a rental. Meanwhile, the unit just sits vacant. Lose/lose. Non-voucher holders just sign a lease and move in. Easy compromise: End discrimination against voucher holders by

Starting today, most residential lots in San Francisco are developable by right for 4-9 unit multifamily projects. No costly BMR, labor, or other bagel toppings! Developers choose the zoning! It's a serendipity of Buffy Wicks's AB 1893 & San Francisco Planning's housing element. ⤵️

A few months ago, a state policymaker said, "Hey Elmendorf, if you were writing a fair-share housing law on a clean slate, how would you do it?" So I wrote a memo. Salim Furth liked, and now it belongs to the world. ⤵️ 🧵 1/5

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on May 5 at 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 with Hector Blanco (Rutgers University ), who will present "Local Effects of Bypassing Zoning Regulations" 🔗 hector-blanco.github.io 📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… #ECONM

I'm excited to help organize Opportunity Insights' 2025 Conference on Economic Mobility (Oct 9-10)! Submit your papers by August 1st here: opportunityinsights.org/updates/2025-c…. Looking forward to reading your submissions! #EconTwitter

My first The Brookings Institution blog! Evidence from 30 countries: EITC-style wage subsidies consistently raise employment—esp among single parents and marginal workers—and remain one of the best policies to reduce poverty & bring more people into the labor force brookings.edu/articles/do-wa…

The modern economic case for public provision is not about public goods or market failures or externalities. It is about what can and can't be achieved by contracting.

Replacing distressed public housing with mixed-income housing raises local prices & improves local amenities. Just Accepted new paper by Hector Blanco Hector Blanco and Lorenzo Neri Lorenzo Neri zurl.co/YyIqS