We develop an urban growth model where human capital spillovers foster entrepreneurship
and learning in heterogeneous cities. Incumbent residents limit city expansion through …

Traffic congestion is a major environmental and social problem whose causes include urban
sprawl, imbalanced home-job distributions, increased car ownership, and lack of public …

In developing countries, substantial resources are allocated each year to build and upgrade
infrastructure, aiming to facilitate market integration, enhance long-term productivity, and …

Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that
infrastructure? We measure road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration …

We study the interaction between transit improvements and land use policies. Bengaluru,
one of India's largest cities, inaugurated a metro system in 2011 but has extremely low …

Physical geography has long been identified as critical for urban development, land use and
environmental outcomes in cities worldwide. However, the literature has yet to provide …

The global adoption of the four-day workweek has surged, particularly accelerated by the
COVID-19 pandemic, driven by a collective desire for increased flexibility, heightened …

Due to the world population growing rapidly over time, the number of personal and local
vehicles are increasing which is one of the main causes of high traffic on the roads. For high …

This paper studies the welfare and distributional effects of dynamically priced highway toll
lanes. To quantify the equilibrium effects of tolling, we develop and estimate a model of …

Recent advancements in data collection have expanded the tools available for urban
science, economic, and real estate research. The integration of diverse data sources has …