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Employment density and agglomeration economies in tall buildings
Publication date: Available online 20 May 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Crocker H. Liu, Stuart S. Rosenthal, William C. Strange (Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - May 20, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Land use policies considering a natural ecosystem
Publication date: Available online 5 May 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Jun Yoshida, Tatsuhito Kono (Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - May 6, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Racial residential segregation and black low birth weight, 1970–2010
Publication date: Available online 29 April 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Gregory T. Niemesh, Katharine L. Shester (Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - April 30, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Does improving public transport decrease car ownership? Evidence from a residential sorting model for the copenhagen metropolitan area
Publication date: Available online 14 April 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Ismir Mulalic, Jan Rouwendal (Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - April 14, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Do firms redline workers?
Publication date: Available online 9 April 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Ana Maria Diaz, Luz Magdalena Salas (Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - April 11, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

The effects of supporting local business: Evidence from the UK
Publication date: Available online 3 March 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Elias Einiö, Henry G. Overman (Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - March 4, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Indirect effects of trade shocks on Turkish local labor markets
Publication date: Available online 2 March 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Peter H. Egger, Pinar Kaynak, Benedikt Zoller-Rydzek (Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - March 2, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Editorial Board
Publication date: March 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 81Author(s): (Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - March 1, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Effects of gentrification on homeowners: Evidence from a natural experiment
Publication date: Available online 27 February 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Lei Ding, Jackelyn Hwang, Mohammad Tahsildoost (Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - February 28, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

The effect of air pollution on criminal activities: Evidence from the NOx Budget Trading Program
Publication date: Available online 21 February 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Siyu Chen, Teng LiAbstractThis paper examines the impacts of air pollution on criminal activities by exploiting three dimensions of variations observed under a rich quasi-experiment: the NOx Budget Trading Program. This program has been well documented to decrease air pollution concentrations in participating states. Employing a triple-difference estimator, we find evidence showing that the program significantly reduced violent and property crimes in participating states by roughly 3.7% and 2.9%, respectively. Instrume...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - February 21, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Manager or professional politician? Local fiscal autonomy and the skills of elected officials
Publication date: Available online 20 February 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Massimo Bordignon, Matteo Gamalerio, Gilberto TuratiAbstractWe provide a theoretical and empirical assessment of why local fiscal autonomy can affect the skills of elected officials in sub-national governments. We first develop a model of politics with different types of politicians and show that – following a tax decentralization reform increasing local fiscal autonomy – politicians with high administrative skills are elected in rich jurisdictions while politicians with high political skills are elected in poor on...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - February 20, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Is there loss aversion in the trade-off between wages and commuting distances?
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Wolfgang Dauth, Peter HallerAbstractWe exploit administrative data on exact commuting distances for a large sample of German employees and study the relation of commuting and wages. We focus on the question of whether job changers are loss averse in trading off wages and commuting distances. We find that the willingness to pay for a reduction of the commuting distance is at least as large as the wage increase job changers require to accept an increase in their commute by the same distance. This non-experimental field e...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - February 12, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Exploring the rise of mortgage borrowing among older Americans
Publication date: Available online 7 February 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): J. Michael Collins, Erik Hembre, Carly UrbanAbstractBetween 1980 and 2015, older households in the US more than tripled the use of home mortgage debt. Rather than using owned homes as a source of imputed rent, older households are borrowing against home equity, with loan terms that exceed their expected life spans. Using several data sources, we explore the rising use of mortgages among elderly homeowners. Rising mortgage borrowing provides low-wealth older households with increased liquid assets, but it does not appear...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - February 8, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Local fiscal policies and their impact on the number and spatial distribution of new firms
Publication date: Available online 31 January 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Nadine Riedel, Martin Simmler, Christian WittrockAbstractWe examine the effect of local business taxation and local public good and service (PIGS) provision on the number and spatial distribution of new firms. Testing ground is Germany and we rely on the universe of firm foundations between 1998 and 2006. Methodologically, we estimate fixed effects poisson models coupled with a control function approach. The results suggest that a 1%-decrease in the business tax rate (the PIGS capital stock) raises (lowers) the number o...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - February 1, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research

Transaction-tax evasion in the housing market
Publication date: Available online 1 February 2020Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): José G. Montalvo, Amedeo Piolatto, Josep RayaAbstractWe model the behaviour of a mortgagor considering to evade the real estate transfer tax. We build an observable measure of over-appraisal that is inversely related to tax evasion and conclude that the tax authority could focus auditing efforts on low-appraisal transactions.Our empirical analysis confirms the predictions using a unique database for Spain, where we directly observe: real payment, value declared to the authority and appraisal.We also argue that individu...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - February 1, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research