We provide estimates of the impact of restrictive residential land use environments on the price of land across major American housing markets. Using micro data on vacant land purchased to develop single family housing, we implement a new empirical strategy for estimating so-called 'zoning...

In this work, we present a gridded dataset about land cover, population density, real estate, and transportation in 192 worldwide urban areas representing together 800 million people. While population density and land cover are secondary data extracted from the GHS-POP and the ESA CCI databases...

The idea of reaping the 'windfalls' in land values due to planning decisions is by no means new. The underlying rationale is that much of the value of real property is created not by the landowner's work, but by government policies that grant development rights or by broad economic and social...

We examine the effect of relaxing land use regulation on housing supply and rents at the local level. To this end, we develop a spatial equilibrium framework that compares a city with varying floor-to-area (FAR) restrictions. The framework shows that upzoning leads to higher local housing supply...