There is a long history of quality of life (QOL) studies based on two distinctive analytical
approaches. One covers objective indicators involving the analysis of spatially aggregated …

This chapter reviews recent literature that considers and explains the tendency for
neighborhood and city-level economic status to rise and fall. A central message is that …

China's ongoing urban economic growth has sharply increased the population's per capita
income, lowered the count of people living below the poverty line, and caused major …

The residential sector accounts for 33% of electricity consumption in the US, with a total
expenditure of $166 billion in 2010. Increasing the energy efficiency of the durable housing …

Beijing's housing market has boomed over the last fifteen years. The city's population grew
by 40.6% and per capita income (in constant RMB) by 273.9% from 1991 to 2005. Using two …

Housing markets clear partly through the time buyers and sellers spend on the market, and
the readiness with which they transact with each other. Applying a random matching model …

More than 100 natural disasters strike the United States every year, causing extensive
fatalities and damages. We construct the universe of US federally designated natural …

San Francisco is known both as one of America's loveliest cities and as home to an
unusually large gay community. We argue that this overrepresentation of gays is not …

This paper models how to use widely available data on wages and housing costs to infer
land rents, local productivity, and the total value of local amenities in the presence of federal …

Measures of the value of public investments are critical inputs into the policy process, and
aggregate production and cost functions have become the dominant methods of evaluating …