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Economist working on housing and replication.

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Inclusionary zoning works in theory, but not in practice

When zoning is a constraint on housing supply, upzoning can create a windfall gain for landowners by giving them valuable development rights. In theory, local governments can capture this surplus land value by requiring the landowner to pro...

13 days ago
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YIMBY research wanted: upzoning and land prices

Upzoning reduces housing prices by increasing the supply of high-density land, which reduces high-density land prices; this reduces land input costs and hence shifts the supply curve for housing. So to evaluate whether upzoning works, the f...

18 days ago
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YIMBY research wanted: demand cascade

The key mechanism underlying the housing crisis is the ‘demand cascade’: upper-class people move in and bid up the price of high-end homes, which pushes middle-class locals to compete for low-end homes, which forces the poor to take on room...

2 months ago
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Induced demand has to come from somewhere

The literature on local effects of new housing uses the framing of supply effects vs. amenity effects. A new apartment building adds housing supply, which decreases rents. But it also adds new amenities (e.g. nicer stores and cafes), which...

2 months ago
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Can AI do replications? GPT5.2 vs GPT5.4 vs refine.ink

In my comment on Moretti (2021) (M21), I found ten problems in the paper. Since only I know what the problems are, I can test whether AI is able to do my job. Specifically, I want to test whether AI can detect the problems in the paper, usi...

3 months ago
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