I process satellite-generated data on terrain elevation and presence of water bodies to precisely
estimate the amount of developable land in US metropolitan areas. The data show that …

Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing
values in US destination cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows …

Like many other assets, housing prices are quite volatile relative to observable changes in
fundamentals. If we are going to understand boom-bust housing cycles, we must incorporate …

Urban economics has traditionally viewed cities as having advantages in production and
disadvantages in consumption. We argue that the role of urban density in facilitating …

Within metropolitan areas, neighborhoods of growing immigrant settlement are becoming
relatively less desirable to natives. We deploy a geographic diffusion model to instrument for …

Introduction: The existence of antibodies to aquaporin-4 (AQP-4-ab) has identified
neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and multiple sclerosis (MS) as different diseases. Although HLA-DRB1 …

A new survey of over 2000 jurisdictions across all major housing markets in the US documents
how regulation of residential building varies across space. New evidence on what a `…

La preocupación por el deterioro ambiental y por el cambio climático son temas que están
muy de actualidad. Esta reflexión aproxima al lector a las interrelaciones que se establecen …

Since its initial reports in the 19th century, neuromyelitis optica (NMO) had been thought to
involve only the optic nerves and spinal cord. However, the discovery of highly specific anti–…

Increasing experience indicates that anti-Ma2-associated encephalitis differs from classical
paraneoplastic limbic or brainstem encephalitis, and therefore may be unrecognized. To …