Matthew E. Kahn
October 22nd 2009
UCLA
Institute of the Environment
La Kretz Hall,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
phone: 310-794-4904
fax: 310-825-9663
Webpage: mek1966.googlepages.com/home
DOB: February 16th 1966
Education
1988-1993. University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Economics.
1986-1987. London School of Economics, G.C. in Economic History.
1984-1988. Hamilton College, B.A. in Economics.
1980-1984.
Employment
January 2007 Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment, Department of Economics and the Department of Public Policy
2006-2007. Professor of Economics,
2003-2004. Visiting Associate Professor of Economics,
2000-2006. Associate Professor of Economics,
2000. Visiting Fellow, Public Policy Institute of
1999-2000. Associate Professor of Economics and
International Affairs,
1996-1998. Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics,
1993-1999. Assistant Professor of Economics and
International Affairs,
Awards
National Science
Foundation Grant #9906165, The Concentration of Urban
Poverty, 9/11/2000-8/31/2002.
(Co-Principal Investigator with Ed Glaeser) $100,612
National
Environmental
Stress, Social Networks, and Older Age Health and Mortality. NIH grant R01AG027960, Sept 1, 2007-Aug 31,
2012. Senior
Investigator. (Dora Costa is the Principal Investigator). Total direct and indirect $1.2 million
Lincoln Institute. (Siqi Zheng and Rui Wang are co-PIs). $25,000. 2009
Haynes Foundation $12,000 2009
Research Grant from the California Air Resources Board, Fall 2009, $175,000 (Frank Wolak is the co-PI).
Distinguished Fellow, Bing Center for Health Economics at the Rand Institute 2006.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship 1993.
Member of Environmental Economics Working Group and Cohort Studies Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research 2002-
Research
Associate of the NBER Environmental and Energy Economics Group, 9/2007-
Suggested back cover quotation for the October 2003 and the October 2006 issues of the Journal of Political Economy
Keynote Lecture on 9/11/2009 in Beijing at the Peking University/Lincoln Institute Conference on Green Cities
Service
Co-Editor of the Review of
Environmental Economics and Policy, effective July 1, 2009
Editorial Council
for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, February 2009
Associate Editor of Journal of Regional Science 2003-, special editor of the February 2007 issue of the Journal of Regional Science on environmental issues
Co-Editor of Journal of Regional Science 2007-2008.
Associate Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics 2004-
Associate Editor of Journal of Urban Economics 2007-
California Air
Resources Board Research Screening Committee, October 2008
University of California Energy Institute, Intercampus Advisory Committee
National Science Foundation multidisciplinary
advisory panel that will examine environment-related
proposals submitted for the FY 2008 Human and Social Dynamics competition.
California Air Resources Board’s External
Review of the Economic Effects of AB32
Books
Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment published September 1st 2006 by the Brookings Institution Press http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/greencities.htm, ISBN 978-0-8157-4816-8 , 2007 Planetizen Top Ten book of the year. Translated into Chinese by Tsinghua University’s CIDEG in 2008.
Heroes and Cowards: The Social
Face of War. (joint with Dora L.
Costa) Princeton University Press, NBER
Development of the American Economy Book Series, published January 2009. ISBN
978-0-691-13704-9
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8734.html
Published
Papers
Car Growth in LDCs.
A Revealed Preference Approach for Ranking City Quality of Life. Journal of Urban Economics, September 1995. 38. 221-235.
New Evidence on Trends in Vehicle Emissions. Rand Journal of Economics, Spring 1996 Vol. 27. No. 1, 183-196.
Evidence on the Benefits of Vehicle Emissions Testing. Economics Letters June 1996. 51 363 369.
The Efficiency and
Equity of Vehicle Emissions Regulation: Evidence from
Particulate Pollution Trends in the United States. Regional Science and Urban Economics. February 1997 27 87-107.
Measuring Environmental Demand: Evidence From
New Estimates of Climate Demand; Evidence from Migration. (Joint with Michael Cragg) Journal of Urban Economics. September 1997 42, 261-284. (Reprinted in Edgar Elgar Volume)
A Household Level Environmental Kuznets Curve. Economics Letters. 59 269-273 1998.
Education's Role in Explaining Diabetic Health Investment Differentials. Economics of Education Review, Fall 1998. 17(3), pages 257-266
Health and Labor Market Performance: The Case of Diabetes. Journal of Labor Economics, 1998 16(4) 878-899.
Quality
of Life and the Environment. (joint with Joe Gyourko and Joe Tracy). Handbook of Regional and Urban
Economics, edited by Paul Cheshire and Edwin Mills. Volume 3.
The Silver Lining of Rust Belt Manufacturing Decline. Journal of Urban Economics, 46, 360-376 1999
Climate Consumption and Climate Pricing from 1940-1990. Regional Science and Urban Economics (joint with Michael Cragg) 29 1999 519-539.
Diabetic Risk Taking: The Role of Information, Education and Medication. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 18:2 147-164 1999
Measuring Neighborhood Investments: An Examination of Community Choice, Real Estate Economics. (joint with Denise DiPasquale) 1999. 27(3) 369-424.
From John Lindsay
to Rudy Giuliani: The Decline of the Local Safety Net? (joint
with Ed Glaeser) Federal Reserve Bank of
The Costs and Consequences of Santiago’s Air Pollution. Harvard Institute of International Development, edited by Edward Glaeser and John Meyer. (Joint with Suzi Kerr) 2002.
The Effects of New Public Projects to Expand Urban Rail Transit. (Joint with Nathaniel Baum-Snow) Journal of Public Economics, 77(2) 251-263,2000.
Smog Reduction's Impact on California County Growth. Journal of Regional Science, August 2000. 40(3), pages 565-582
Power Couples, The Locational Choice of the College Educated 1940-1990 (joint with Dora Costa) , Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(4) November 2000, 1287-1315. Reprinted in Edgar Elgar Volume
The Environmental Impact of Suburbanization, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Fall 2000. 19(4), 569-586.
Informal Economies, Information and the Environment, joint with Alex Pfaff, Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2000 53(2) 525-544.
City Quality of Life Dynamics: Measuring The Costs of Growth, Journal of Real Estate and Finance. (22:2/3) 2001 339-352.
Decentralized
Employment and the Transformation of the
The Beneficiaries of Clean Air Act Legislation. Regulation. 24(1) 34-39. 2001.
Has Sprawl Reduced the Black/White Housing Consumption Gap? Housing Policy Debate, Volume 12(1) 2001.
Giving Hybrids Traction. Boston Globe, Focus Section page 3 February 25, 2001.
Demographic Change and the Demand for Environmental Regulation. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter 2002. 21(1) 45-62. Reprinted in Edgar Elgar Volume
Measuring the Consequences of Promoting Inner City Homeownership. Journal of Housing Economics (joint with Jean Cummings and Denise DiPasquale) 11(4) 2002 330-359.
Understanding the Decline in American Social Capital 1952-1998 (joint with Dora Costa), Kyklos, 56(1) 2003 17-46.
Civic Engagement in Heterogeneous Communities (joint with Dora Costa), Perspectives on Politics 2003, 1(1) 103-112.
New Evidence on Eastern Europe’s Pollution Progress, in Topics in Economic Policy. Berkeley Electronic Press Journal (http://www.bepress.com/) 3(1) 2003
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War (Joint with Dora Costa) Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2003 117(2) 519-548.
The Rising Price of Non-Market Goods (joint with Dora Costa), May 2003 American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 227-232.
The Geography of U.S Pollution Intensive Trade: Evidence from 1958-1994. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2003 33(4) 483-500.
Two Measures of Progress in Adapting to Climate Change, Global Environmental Change, 2003 13 307-312.
Domestic Pollution Havens: Evidence From Cancer Deaths in Border Counties. Journal of Urban Economics. 2004 56(1) 51-69.
Changes in the Value of Life 1940-1980 (joint with Dora Costa), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 2004 29(2) 159-180.
Sprawl and Urban Growth (Chapter in the Handbook of Urban Economics
Volume IV) joint with Edward Glaeser, edited by
Vernon Henderson and J. Thisse. Volume 4.
Testing for Pollution Havens Inside and Outside of Regional Trading Blocs, (joint with Yutaka Yoshino), in Advances in Economic Policy. Berkeley Electronic Press Journal (http://www.bepress.com/) 4(2) 2004 , published in The Economics of Pollution Havens edited by Don Fullerton, Edward Elgar Press 2006.
Environmental Regional Public Goods in Asia and Latin America. Published in Regional Public Goods from Theory to Practice. edited by Antoni Estevadeordal, Brian Frantz and Tam Robert Nguyen. IADB and ADB. 2004 pages 203-226
Estimating Housing Demand with an Application to Explaining Racial Segregation in Cities (joint with Pat Bajari), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics January 2005 23(1) 20-33.
The Death Toll
From Natural Disasters: The Role of Income, Geography and Institutions, Review of Economics and Statistics, May
2005. 87(2) 271-284.
Environmental and Urban Economics Blog started on 8/7/2005 available at greeneconomics.blogspot.com, named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 25 Economics blogs in July 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124768581740247061.html
Air Pollution in Cities, chapter for Blackwell Press Companion Volume on Urban Economics, edited by Richard Arnott and Daniel McMillen. 2006.
Public Health and Mortality: What Can We Learn from the Past? (joint with Dora Costa) , in Poverty, the Distribution of Income, and Public Policy edited by Alan Auerbach, David Card and John Quigley, Russell Sage volume in honor of Eugene Smolensky, 2006.
Environmental Valuation Using Cross-City Hedonic Methods. Chapter Two of Environmental Valuation: Interregional and Intraregional Perspectives. 2006 Ashgate Press book edited by John Carruthers and Bill Mundy.
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen (joint with Dora Costa), Journal of Economic History , December 2006 66(04), pages 936-962
Econoblog
debate on Are London-Style Traffic Charges The Answer for
U.S. Congestion? published in the Online Wall Street Journal on January 18th
2007 (joint with Peter Gordon)
Desertion, Social Norms and Migration (joint with Dora Costa) Journal of Law and Economics, May 2007 50, pages 323-353
Green Growth: The
Economics of Green Cities published by
Gentrification Trends in New Transit Oriented
Communities: Evidence from Fourteen Cities that Expanded and Built Rail Transit
Systems, Real Estate Economics 35 (2) (2007) 155–182.
The Quality of Life
and Productivity in Sprawled versus Compact Cities , OECD Roundtable. Proceedings, 2008
Environmental Disasters as Risk Regulation Catalysts: The Role of Bhopal, Chernobyl, Exxon-Valdez, Love Canal, and 3 Mile Island in Shaping Environmental Law , Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, August 2007 35(1). 17-43.
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps (joint with Dora Costa) American Economic Review, September 2007. 97(4), pages 1467-1487
Do
Living Green: Ranking the best countries, Readers Digest October 2007, (joint with Fran Lostys)
Kahn,
Matthew E. "compensating differentials." The New
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition.
Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence
E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online. Palgrave
Macmillan.
Kahn, Matthew E. "urban environment and quality of
life." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second
Edition. Eds. Steven N. Durlauf
and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan,
2008. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online.
Palgrave Macmillan.
Why Do the Poor Live in Cities? The Role of Public Transportation (joint with Ed Glaeser and Jordan Rappaport) Journal of Urban Economics 2008, 63(1) 1-24.
Land and
Residential Property Markets in a Booming Economy: New Evidence from
Air Pollution
Progress Despite Sprawl: The “Greening” of the Vehicle Fleet (Joint with Joel Schwartz) Journal
of Urban Economics, 2008 63(3) 775-787.
Estimating Hedonic Models of Consumer Demand with an Application to Urban Sprawl (joint with Pat Bajari) published in Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets Pricing Environmental Amenities and Segregation Baranzini, A.; Ramirez, J.; Schaerer, C.; Thalmann, P. (Eds.) 2008, XXII, 278 p. 26 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-76814-4
Econoblog
debate on Limits to Growth published in the Online Wall Street Journal on
March 22nd 2008 (joint with Jim Brander)
Regional Growth and Exposure to Nearby Coal
Fired Power Plant Emissions, Regional
Science and Urban Economics, 2009 39(1), pages 15-22
"Green Market
Geography: The Spatial Clustering of Hybrid Vehicles and LEED Registered
Buildings," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy:
Vol. 9 : Iss. 2
(Contributions), Article 2. Available
at: http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol9/iss2/art2 ,
2009 joint with Ryan Vaughn
Green Market Geography, UCLA IOE Report Card Winter 2009 published in March 2009. http://www.ioe.ucla.edu/reportcard/article.asp?parentid=2304
New Evidence on Trends in
the Cost of Urban Agglomeration, for NBER Conference Volume on the Economics of
Agglomeration. Edited by Edward Glaeser
Health,
Stress and Social Networks: Evidence from Civil War Veterans (joint with Dora L. Costa), Demography
One of Six External
Reviewers, Peer Review of the Economic Supplement to
the California AB 32 Draft Scoping Plan www.hks.harvard.edu/hepg/Papers/peer_review_comments_arb_responses.pdf
Think Again: The Green Economy, Foreign Policy , May/June 2009 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4837&page=0
Understanding Spatial Variation in Tax Sheltering: The Role of Demographics, Ideology and Taxes (joint with Bill Gentry) International Regional Science Review 2009,
32(3) 400-423.
Urban
Growth and Climate Change, Annual Review
of Resource Economics, 2009, 16(1): 1-17.
Walking the Walk: The Association Between
Environmentalism and Green Transit Behavior (joint with Eric Morris), Journal of the American Planning Association, 2009 , 75(4)
389-405.
Towards a System of Open Cities in China: Home Prices, FDI Flows and Air
Quality in 35 Major Cities (joint with Siqi Zheng and Hongyu Liu), Regional Science and Urban Economics
Working Papers
Do Liberal Cities Discourage New Housing Development?, under review
The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development (joint with Ed Glaeser) NBER Working Paper #14238, under revision for the Journal of Urban Economics
International Trade in Used Vehicles: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA (joint with Lucas Davis) NBER Working Paper #14395, under review
Understanding the role of energy prices and regulation in determining where Manufacturing Agglomerates: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
(joint with Mansur)
Local Public Goods Improvements and Housing Market Dynamics: Evidence from Beijing (joint with Zheng and Wang)
China’s Green Cities: Household Carbon Emissions and Urban Development (joint with Zheng Wang, and Glaeser )
Carbon Geography: The Political Economy of Congressional Support for Legislation Intended to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Production (joint with Cragg, Zhou, and Gurney) NBER Working Paper #14693
Environmentalism and the Business Cycle: The Chilling Effects of Recessions
Economic Factors Predict West Nile Virus (several co-authors, Ryan Harrigan is the lead author)
Work in Progress
Electricity Consumption and Demography (joint with Costa)
Cities, Economic Development and the Role of Place Based Policies: Lessons for Appalachia
Climate Change and the Future of Cities, book manuscript
Commercial Energy Capitalization (joint with Quigley, Kok and Mansur)
An Energy Experiment (joint with Wolak)
China and Climate Change (joint with Zhou)
Industrial Energy Intensity Trends Across U.S and Chinese Cities (joint with Cao and Zheng)
Book Reviews
Review of V. Kerry Smith's Estimating Economic Values for Nature. Growth and Change 1997
Review of William T. Bogart The Economics of Cities and Suburbs, and John F. McDonald Fundamentals of Urban Economics. Regional Science and Urban Economics, January 1999
Review of Marlon Boarnet and Randall Crane’s Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel for Regional Science and Urban Economics, March 2002
Review
of Robert Bruegmann’s Sprawl: A Compact History, Journal of Economic History March 2006
Review of Gary Libecap’s Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West’s First Great Water Transfer, Journal of Economic History, 2008, 68:312-313.
Teaching
Principles (
Microeconomics (Harvard University, Stanford and Tufts)
Urban Economics (
Environmental Economics (
Antitrust and Regulation (
Undergraduate Thesis Writing Seminar (Harvard and Stanford)
Statistics (Tufts)
Economic Development and the Environment (Tufts)
Energy in the Modern Economy (UCLA)
California
Sustainability Challenges (UCLA)
Environmental
Policy Seminar (UCLA)
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