Showing papers in "Journal of Urban Economics in 2014"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between the regulation of urban development within different jurisdictions and land prices, while considering other factors that shape the value of land, such as topography and access to jobs, and found that cities that require a greater number of independent reviews to obtain a building permit or a zoning change have higher land prices.

TL;DR: The authors found that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector employment but does affect the sectoral composition of the private sector, and that each additional public sector job creates 0.5 jobs in the non-tradable sector (construction and services) while crowding out 0.4 jobs in manufacturing.

TL;DR: In this paper, a dynamic linear rational equilibrium model in the tradition of Alonso, Rosen and Roback is proposed to match the strong persistence in high frequency price changes from year to year.

TL;DR: The authors showed that close geographical proximity to mothers or mothers-in-law has a substantial positive effect on the labor supply of married women with young children, and argued that the mechanism through which proximity increases labor supply is the availability of childcare.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of natural disasters on GDP per capita by applying the synthetic control approach and using a within-country perspective and found that the short-term effects are negligible in both regions, though they become negative if they simulate the GDP that would have been observed in absence of financial aid.

TL;DR: The authors studied the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets, and found that a higher incidence of self-employed positively and strongly correlates with business creation and innovation in urban areas, but not in rural areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine MSA-level patent data during the period 1975-2000 and find that innovation output is higher in regions where both a sizable population of small firms and large labs are present.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of airport infrastructure on relative sectoral employment at the metropolitan-area level, using data from the United States, were estimated using the 1944 National Airport Plan.

TL;DR: The authors identify how the cost of college shapes high school graduates' choice of college state and sector by exploiting discontinuous eligibility criteria for broad-based merit scholarships in Tennessee and find no evidence that the scholarship affects college-going at the eligibility margin, little to no evidence of substitution between in-state and out-of-state colleges, and no evidence for substitution between public and private universities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of changes over time in cross-border differences in state tax conditions on the tendency for new establishments to favor one side of a state border over the other was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the spatial changes in labour market inequality for US states and MSAs using Census and American Community Survey data between 1980 and 2010, and show that the pattern of shifts through time has resulted in increased spatial inequality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a theory that generalizes the fundamental law of highway congestion and found that if there exists a coverage effect, that is, the effect of longer road length on traffic conditional on capacity, then the new equilibrium travel speed could be lower than its previous level.

TL;DR: The authors showed that increased educational attainment of blacks relative to whites in a city between 1990 and 2000 leads to a significant rise in segregation, especially for older blacks, and a marked increase in the number of middle-class black communities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ simulated unemployment histories to measure the severity of attenuation bias in loan-level estimations of default risk due to a borrower becoming unemployed, which is at odds with theory, which assigns a critical role to unemployment in the decision to stop payment on a mortgage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of universal preschool on childcare providers and found that government subsidization through funding was more effective at expanding preschool than government provision, while the expansion of publicly-provided care was driven largely by movement of employees from private centers to public settings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an empirical test of a principal tenet of fiscal federalism: that spending discretion, when granted to localities, allows public-good levels to adjust to suit local demands.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors set up a nested random effects spatial autoregressive panel data model to explain annual house price variation for 2000-2007 across 353 local authority districts in England.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks and find that workers are more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected with neighbors of the same race or ethnic group.

TL;DR: The authors assesses the causal effects of Catholic primary schooling on student outcomes such as test scores, grade retention, and behavior, and find very little evidence that Catholic schooling improves behavioral and other non-cognitive outcomes once they account for selection bias.

TL;DR: In 2001, amendments to the Higher Education Act made people convicted of drug offenses ineligible for federal financial aid for up to two years after their conviction as mentioned in this paper, which had a large negative impact on the college attendance of students with drug convictions.

TL;DR: Using rich individual level data it is shown that this increase in alcohol availability raised both alcohol use and crime in Sweden.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the cost of providing public goods is affected by local government corruption because bureaucrats have no strong incentives to pursue mandated tasks under a corrupt environment Commercial airports in the United States are chosen to demonstrate such impacts of corruption.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the effect of state merit aid programs on the post-college location of 24-30-year olds, and found that strong state merit-aid programs on average increase the probability that a college attendee lives in his or her birth state during ages 24 to 30 by 276 percentage points.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider a monocentric city where a traffic bottleneck is located at the entrance of the central business district and show that elimination of queuing time under optimal road pricing induces individuals to spend more time at home and to have larger houses, causing urban sprawl.

TL;DR: In this article, an equilibrium model of location, labor supply and real estate (land) prices within a metro area was constructed to predict that metro areas with exogenously less buildable land will have higher house prices and more labor force participation of married women.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the importance of social interactions in one's own residential neighborhood in the demand for housing quality and find evidence consistent with the presence of peer effects, especially for households living in urban areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, a spatial equilibrium model where search frictions hinder the immediate reallocation of workers both within and across local labor markets is presented, where firms and workers find themselves in bilateral monopoly positions when determining wages.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the local labor supply effects of changes to the minimum wage by examining the response of low-skilled immigrants' location decisions, and they find that immigrants shift toward labor markets with stagnant minimum wages, and this result is robust to a number of alternative interpretations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors construct monthly economic activity indices for the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) beginning in 1990 and find significant differences in the depth of recent metro recessions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the canonical model with an additional sector producing non-tradable goods which benefits from localized knowledge spillovers coming from the RD and show that agglomeration may have a negative effect on the growth rate of real income, both at the regional and at the aggregate level.