Research Page

Crime

Drugs, race, and technology: Winning the war on bad drugs, with Vanita Gowda, 2004. In David Colander, Robert Prasch, and Falguni Sheth, editors, Racism, Liberalism, and Economics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Why repeated criminal opportunities matter: A dynamic stochastic analysis of criminal decision-making, 1998, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 14: 232-55.

 

Homelessness

How effective homelessness prevention impacts the length of shelter spells, with Sarena F. Goodman and Peter Messeri, 2014, Journal of Housing Economics 23(1): 55-62.

Individual homelessness: Entries, exits, and policy, 2012, Journal of Housing Economics 21(2): 77-100.

Housing allowances and homelessness: A simple idea, 2012, University of Calgary, School of Public Policy Research Papers, volume 5, issue 2.

Can Homelessness Be Prevented? Evidence from New York City's HomeBase Program, with Peter Messeri and Sarena Goodman

Is shared housing a way to reduce homelessness? The effect of household arrangements on formerly homeless people, 2010, with Yinghua He and Robert Rosenheck, Journal of Housing Economics 19 (1): 1-12.

How to House the Homeless. Co-editor, with Ingrid Gould Ellen. 2010. New York: Russell Sage.

Within this book:

Introduction, with Ingrid Gould Ellen.

Homelessness as bad luck: Implications for research and practice.”

Homelessness in the United States

Homelessness as Bad Luck: Implications for Research and Policy

Managing Homeless Shelters

What Shocks Precipitate Homelessness?

When should homeless families get subsidized apartments? 2009, Journal of Housing Economics 18(2): 69-80.

Homeless shelters for single adults: Why does their population change? shelters for single adults: Why does their population change?with Ting Wu, 2008, Social Service Review 82 (3): 511-50.

Fewer subsidized exits and a recession: How New York City's family homeless shelter population became immense, with Ting Wu, 2006, Journal of Housing Economics 15 (2): 99-125.

Wrong person and wrong place: For homelessness, the conjunction is what matters, 2004, Journal of Housing Economics 13 (1): 1-15.

Need and generosity: How markets for free goods equilibrate, 2003, Journal of Urban Economics 54 (1): 157-72

Do homeless shelter conditions determine shelter population? The case of the Dinkins deluge, 1999, with Michael Cragg, Journal of Urban Economics 46: 377-415.

The form of U.S. in-kind programs, 1999, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 15: 401-17.

Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

economic theory of housing and homelessness, 1995, Journal of Housing Economics 4: 13-49.

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Homelessness: Economic perspectives, 2012. In: Susan J. Smith, Marja Elsinga, Lorna Fox O'Mahony, Ong Seow Eng, Susan Wachter, editors. International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Volume 2, pp. 37-41. Oxford: Elsevier.

Homeless prevention, with Jocelyn Apicello and William McAllister, forthcoming, Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Homelessness in the United States, 2011, Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning, Oxford University Press.

 

Housing

How New York and Los Angeles housing policies are different and maybe why, with Ingrid Gould Ellen, 2013. In: David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge, editors, New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future, pp. 286-309. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rental housing assistance for the 21st century, 2011, Cityscape 13(2): 127-146.

Do government programs make households too small? Evidence from New York City, with Ingrid Gould Ellen, 2007, Population Research and Policy Review 26 (4): 387-409.

Abandoned buildings: A stochastic analysis, 1993, Journal of Urban Economics 34: 43-74.

The option value of tax delinquency: Theory, 1990, Journal of Urban Economics 28: 287-317.

 

Political economy

Representatives and districts, 2000, Social Choice and Welfare 17: 157-78.

Special districts: Federalism as soap opera, 1999. In Eamon Shea and Michael Keane, editors, Core Issues in European Integration, 227-44. Dublin: Oak Tree Press.

Does free trade with political science put normative economists out of work? with Jagdish Bhagwati, 1997, Economics and Politics 9. Reprinted in Kaushik Basu, editor, Readings in Political Economy. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Review of Of Time and Power, 1992. In Economics and Politics 4: 109-115.

Why are there democracies? A principal-agent answer, 1990, Economics and Politics 2: 133-55.

The care and handling of monetary authorities, 1990, Economics and Politics 2: 25-44.

 

Labor

Turnover reflects specific training better than wages do, with Lalith Munasinghe, 2005, Journal of Labor Economics (April).

Up-or-out rules in the market for lawyers, with Aloysius Siow, 1995, Journal of Labor Economics 13: 709-35.

On-the-job screening, up-or-out rules, and firm growth, with Aloysius Siow, 1992, Canadian Journal of Economics 25: 346-68.

Promotion lotteries, with Aloysius Siow, 1991, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 7: 401-09.

 

Other areas

Preserving liberal arts education: A futile endeavor, 2009, pp. 157-162 in David Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick, eds., Educating Economists: The Teagle Discussion on Re-Evaluating the Undergraduate Economics Major. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Needle sharing and HIV transmission: A model with markets and purposive behavior,” with David Bloom and Ajay Mahal, National Bureau of Economic Research working paper 14823, 2009.

City Economics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Economic perspectives on injecting drug use, 2005, with David Bloom and Ajay Mahal. In Bjorn Lindgren and Michael Grossman, editors, Substance Use: Individual Behaviour, Social Interactions, Markets and Politics. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Apes, essences, and races: What natural scientists believed about human variation, 1700-1900, with Jill Shapiro, 2004. In David Colander, Robert Prasch, and Falguni Sheth, editors, Racism, Liberalism, and Economics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Professors who defend tenure: Are they hypocrites? with Jagdish Bhagwati, 2001, Chronicle of Higher Education (October 5): B24.

Technical progress, globalization, and speed of change: What track and field records show, with Lalith Munasinghe and Stephen Danninger, 2001, Journal of Political Economy 109: 1132-49.

Land assembly and urban renewal, 1994, Regional Science and Urban Economics 24: 287-300.

 

A game-theoretic rendering of threats and promises, with Daniel Klein, 1993, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 21: 295-314.

Going beyond with Bayesian updating, with Judith Komaki, 1992, Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis 25: 585-97.

Some results on two-armed bandits when both projects vary, 1989, Journal of Applied Probability 26: 655-58.

Potential Pareto optimality of risky projects, 1986, Quarterly Journal of Economics 51: 648-52.

Rational Commitment: A Foundation for Macroeconomics. Durham: Duke University Press, 1985.