Annual Conference

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Real Estate and Urban Economics, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2022

Based on mobile phone records for 71 million users and location tracking information for one million users over two years, this study examines the labor market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in China’s Guangdong province, whose GDP is larger than all but the top 12 countries in the world. Using ...
Keywords: COVID-19, Mobile Phone, Recovery, Unemployment
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Annual Conference

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Real Estate and Urban Economics, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2021

This paper estimates the amenity value of urban trees. The empirical strategy exploits an ecological catastrophe—the emerald ash borer (EAB) infestation—to instrument for the evolution of the tree canopy in Toronto between 2008 and 2018. One additional tree within a range of 50m from the centroi...
Keywords: Housing price, wealth e ects, collateral e ects, online consumption, China
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows

We show the existence of independent random matching of a large population in a continuous-time dynamical system, where the matching intensities could be general non-negative jointly continuous functions on the space of type distributions and the time line. In particular, we construct a continuum of...
Keywords: Independent dynamic random matching, directed search, enduring partnerships, exact law of large numbers, continuous-time, random mutation
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

How does an epidemic affect individuals’ expectations on economic prospects? Do people care more about containing the disease or sustaining normal economic activities during the epidemic? We implement an incentivized longitudinal online survey on economic expectations with randomized controlled tr...
Keywords: COVID-19, Expectation, Longitudinal Survey, RCT
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Commentaries

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, 2020, Pandemic

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