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- Publications
- Influence
Causes of Sprawl: A Portrait from Space
- M. Burchfield, H. Overman, D. Puga, M. Turner
- Economics
- 1 May 2006
We study the extent to which US urban development is sprawling and consider what determines differences in sprawl across space. Using remote-sensing data to track the evolution of land use on a grid… Expand
Urban Growth and Transportation
- G. Duranton, M. Turner
- Economics
- 1 January 2008
We estimate the effects of major roads and public transit on the growth of major cities in the US between 1980 and 2000. We find that a 10% increase in a city’s stock of roads causes about a 2%… Expand
Roads, Railroads, and Decentralization of Chinese Cities
- Nathaniel Baum-Snow, L. Brandt, J. Henderson, M. Turner, Qinghua Zhang
- Business, Economics
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- 17 July 2017
We investigate how urban railroad and highway configurations have influenced urban form in Chinese cities since 1990. Each radial highway displaces 4% of central city population to surrounding… Expand
Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity
- S. Redding, M. Turner
- Economics
- 1 June 2014
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multi-region model of… Expand
Roads and Trade: Evidence from the US
- G. Duranton, P. Morrow, M. Turner
- Economics
- 1 March 2013
We estimate the effect of interstate highways on the level and composition of trade for us cities. Highways within cities have a large effect on the weight of city exports with an elasticity of… Expand
Land Use Regulation and Welfare
- M. Turner, A. Haughwout, W. V. D. Klaauw
- Economics
- 1 July 2014
We evaluate the effect of land use regulation on the value of land and on welfare. Our estimates are based on a decomposition of the effects of regulation into three components: an own‐lot effect,… Expand
The effects of land transfer taxes on real estate markets: evidence from a natural experiment in Toronto
- Benjamin Dachis, G. Duranton, M. Turner
- Economics
- 1 March 2012
Taxes levied on the sale or purchase of real estate are pervasive but little studied. By exploiting a natural experiment arising from Toronto’s imposition of a Land Transfer Tax (LTT) in early… Expand
LAND RIGHTS IN CHINA: FACTS, FICTIONS, AND ISSUES
- S. Rozelle, L. Brandt, +11 authors Fred Zimmerman
- Political Science
- 2001
The overall goal of our paper is to begin the task of laying out the current facts and to describe systematically the organization and utilization of China’s cultivated land resources. Currently, we… Expand
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Fat City: Questioning the Relationship between Urban Sprawl and Obesity
- Jean Eid, H. Overman, D. Puga, M. Turner
- Geography
- 1 March 2007
We study the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity. Using data that tracks individuals over time, we find no evidence that urban sprawl causes obesity. We show that previous findings of a… Expand
Meetings with Costly Participation
- M. Osborne, J. Rosenthal, M. Turner
- Economics
- 1 September 2000
We study a collective decision-making process in which people interested in an issue may participate, at a cost, in a meeting, and the resulting decision is a compromise among the participants'… Expand