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"Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for both a PhD level course in urban economics and a master's level course in urban policy. Both the US and the world populations are becoming more and more urbanized, and these notes are designed to help scholars learn and teach about the factors that determine urban residential structure and that lead to urban problems such as inadequate housing, concentrated poverty, an inequitable distribution of local public services, racial and ethnic discrimination in housing, and traffic congestion. Although these notes focus on the US, many of the lessons in the notes apply to other countries as well. They also draw on Professor Yinger's extensive teaching experience and publication record in urban economics and should prove useful to many scholars who want to teach about or study urban areas."--

"With more than half of today's global GDP being produced by approximately four hundred metropolitan centers, learning about the economics of cities is vital to understanding economic prosperity. This textbook introduces graduate and upper-division undergraduate students to the field of urban economics and fiscal policy, relying on a modern approach that integrates theoretical and empirical analysis. Based on material that Holger Sieg has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Urban Economics and Fiscal Policy brings the most recent insights from the field into the classroom. Divided into short chapters, the book explores fiscal policies that directly shape economic issues in cities, such as city taxes, the provision of quality education, access to affordable housing, and protection from crime and natural hazards. For each issue, Sieg offers questions, facts, and background; illuminates how economic theory helps students engage with topics; and presents empirical data that shows how economic ideas play out in daily life. Throughout, the book pushes readers to think critically and immediately put what they are learning to use by applying cutting-edge theory to data."

Introduction: rethinking urban economics from a conceptual standpoint -- Space and the city : the historical narrative in revisiting the nature and terms of urban development -- Social practice and the language of urban space -- The hidden axiom of mobility and the topological configuration of urban space -- Constructing urban land: exploring the tensions within the land rent gradient -- Toward a theory of excess demand : why housing markets are different -- The question of rent : the emerging urban housing crisis in the new century -- The Viennese crucible of rent control -- From necco to novartis : the primacy of historical agency in the transformation of the industrial base of Cambridge, Massachusetts -- Conclusion : a new cast to urban economics

A comprehensive introduction to both urban and geographical economics: the two dominant approaches used to explain the distribution of economic activity across space. This fully revised and up-to-date third edition gives a full account of the ever-expanding body of knowledge and insights on urban and geographical economics, with an increased emphasis on analytical concepts and empirical methods, reflecting developments in the literature since the last edition. The authors provide both state-of-the-art theories and empirics, introducing new data, methods and models for this edition, including a whole chapter dedicated to measurement issues and empirical methods. Written in a style that is accessible to students who are new to the field, this textbook also includes more advanced concepts that will interest experienced researchers. Unrivalled in its scope and depth, this title is perfect for readers seeking to understand the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity between and within countries.

Defence date: 10 September 2020 (Online) ; Examining Board: Prof. Árpád Ábrahám (EUI and University of Bristol, Supervisor); Prof. Juan J. Dolado (University Carlos III Madrid); Prof. Lídia Farré (University of Barcelona); Prof. Nezih Guner (CEMFI) ; This dissertation analyses how the geographical sorting of individuals and households affects labour markets as well as gender and spatial inequality. In the first chapter, I show that labour force participation increases with city size for all demographic groups except for women with children, for whom it decreases, a phenomenon that I label Big City Child Penalty (BCCP). Both by means of empirical evidence and a quantitative spatial model of households, I show that the BCCP can be explained by commuting times, wages, and childcare price differentials between small and big cities as well as for unobserved heterogeneity in preferences for a stay-home parent. The second chapter of this dissertation highlights the role of delayed childbearing as an important driver of gentrification. While downtowns provide shorter commuting times and more consumption amenities, limited housing space and schools' worse quality reduce the value of this location choice when children are born. We exploit exogenous variation in the cost of postponing childbearing to obtain causal estimates of the impact of delayed maternity on gentrification. We find that enhanced access to assisted reproductive technologies in the state increases income downtown by 5.4% relative to the suburbs. The third chapter studies the relationship between trade and migration. Coinciding with a period of increasing trade integration, the educational composition of migrants within the European Union changed towards high-skilled workers. We build a two-country, two-sector general equilibrium model in which countries only differ in the productivity of high-tech workers. While price equalization, induced by trade integration, equalizes the real wages of non-educated workers, differences in the real wages of educated workers remain, since the latter are more productive in the most advanced country. As a consequence, factor mobility is needed to exhaust differences in real wages, leading to high-skilled emigration towards the most advanced country. ; 1. Mums and the City: Female Labour Supply and City Size -- 2. Delayed Birth and Gentrification -- 3. Free Trade and Labour Mobility

This dissertation explores three topics in Urban Economics and InternationalTrade. Chapter 1 measures the effect of transit access on neighborhood incomes byexploiting a quasi-experimental setting in Dallas. I show that income in neighborhoodsthat received rail access increases compared to neighborhoods that were promised toreceive access but did not receive it. The treatment effect is positively correlated withinitial neighborhood income and highlights the role of transit as an incubator for incomesegregation. Chapter 2 estimates the impact of international conflict on bilateral traderelations using several incidents of politically motivated boycotts. I find large reductionsin exports from the boycotted to the boycotting countries. Product-level results are in linewith intuition and most effective for consumer goods while having at most a temporaryeffect on intermediates and capital goods. Chapter 3 explores the usage of Landsatsatellite imagery for the measurement of economic outcomes at small geographies.

"The chapters of this book synthesize papers on the inter-related topics of urban economics, real estate, transportation and public policy and include applied and empirical research on a variety of sub-topics. These include innovative econometric techniques that are applied to timely problems, such as impacts of flooding in Vancouver, BC Canada on property values; and the determinants of traffic accident fatalities in the US and in Thailand. There are also chapters on more policy-oriented issues, such as the impacts of Covid-19 on real estate in Toronto, ON Canada. The book will appeal to the interest of academics, policy-makers, planners, and geographers. Eminent contributors include Professor Anming Zhang from the University of British Columbia; and Professors Peter Loeb and Richard Fowles, from Rutgers University and the University of Utah, respectively. These authors are all past-presidents of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) of the American Economic Association (the national association for economists in North America). In addition, Professor James Peoples from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Secretary of TPUG, is a contributor."

"The purpose of our book is to offer an introduction to urban and geographical economics, the two dominant approaches in mainstream economics to explain the distribution of economic activity across space. The fact that we offer an 'introduction' does not mean that we avoid models or shy away from more advanced or difficult concepts; it indicates that we have attempted to write a book that is both accessible to readers and students who are new to the field but also of interest to fellow researchers. This book builds upon the 1st and 2nd editions of 2001 and 2009 respectively"--