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Djankov, Simeon; Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2026

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Prices versus quantities revisited : what do policymakers need to know to set Pigouvian taxes and subsidies?

DiPasquale, Denise; Glaeser, Edward L.; Guren, Adam M.; … - 2026 - This version: June 2026

What information do policymakers need to design Pigouvian taxes or subsidies? Standard logic suggests that it is sufficient to know the size of the externality and unnecessary to know about quantities. Yet this logic is incorrect if interventions have fixed costs, taxes create deadweight losses,...

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Why has construction productivity stagnated? The role of land-use regulation

D'Amico, Leonardo; Glaeser, Edward L.; Gyourko, Joseph E.; … - 2025

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Workplace segregation between college and non-college workers

Dillon, Francis; Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - 2025

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Infrastructure inequality: Who pays the cost of road roughness?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Currier, Lindsey; Kreindler, Gabriel E. - 2024

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Report on the potential impacts of property tax abatement on rental housing construction in Boston

Alejandro, Patricia; Carter, Mary Ellen; DiPasquale, Denise - 2024

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Report on the potential impacts of property tax abatement on rental housing construction in Boston

Alejandro, Patricia; Carter, Mary Ellen; DiPasquale, Denise - 2024 - This version: January 2024

Boston's high housing costs reflect a historic failure to build enough units to satisfy demand. Interest rates and construction costs have risen recently, and the flow of new market-rate residential housing projects has slowed. To spur more construction, the City of Boston is considering various...

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Infrastructure inequality : who pays the cost of road roughness?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Currier, Lindsey; Kreindler, Gabriel E. - 2024

Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration data from Uber rides across millions of American roads. Our measure correlates strongly and positively with other...

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Why has construction productivity stagnated? : the role of land-use regulation

D'Amico, Leonardo; Glaeser, Edward L.; Gyourko, Joseph E.; … - 2025 - This version: November 14, 2024

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then plummeted after 1970. The productivity boom from 1940 to 1970 shows that nothing makes technological...

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