Home ownership as status competition The high ratio of men to women in the marriage market helps explain why homeownership in China has increased despite skyrocketing house prices Infrastructure Xiaobo Zhang Published 13.06.17
Floods and the location of economic activity Economic activity is concentrated in low-lying urban areas despite greater risk of flooding, and tends to return to these areas rather than relocating Infrastructure Adriana Kocornik-Mina Thomas McDermott Guy Michaels Ferdinand Rauch Published 21.01.16
The bubble dynamics of China’s housing boom Unless the government curtains new construction in lower tier cities, it is hard to see how the housing boom will sustain. Infrastructure Edward Glaeser Published 21.06.17
Urbanisation with and without industrialisation Resource-exporting countries urbanise without acquiring the industrial sectors typically associated with development Infrastructure Dietrich Vollrath Rémi Jedwab Douglas Gollin Published 09.03.16
When models fall short: Evidence from Chinese road infrastructure investments Quantitative models may prove to be weak substitutes for direct empirical evidence; for evidence-based policymaking, research technique matters Infrastructure Nathaniel Baum-Snow Vernon Henderson Matthew Turner Qinghua Zhang Loren Brandt Published 09.11.17
Flooding and urban adaptation Economic activity tends not to relocate away from the most vulnerable locations, but aid for reconstruction could be used to encourage this to happen Infrastructure Adriana Kocornik-Mina Thomas McDermott Guy Michaels Ferdinand Rauch Published 06.05.16
