Nathaniel Baum-Snow

Brown University

Department of Economics, Box B

Providence, RI 02912

Phone: (401) 863-2697

Nathaniel_Baum-Snow {at} brown {dot} edu

 

CV: pdf

Work In Progress

Inequality and City Size with Ronni Pavan

Publications

Understanding the City Size Wage Gap

with Ronni Pavan, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming

(replication data and code)

 

School Desegregation, School Choice and Changes in Residential Location Patterns by Race

with Byron Lutz, American Economic Review, 2011, 101(7): 3019-3046.

 

Changes in Transportation Infrastructure and Commuting Patterns in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1960-2000, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings), 2010, 100(2): 378-382.

(This version is slightly longer than the published version which was cut due to space constraints.)

 

The Effects of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments on Neighborhoods with Justin Marion, Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93(5-6): 654-666.

 

Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122(2): 775-805.

 

Suburbanization and Transportation in the Monocentric Model

Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, 62(3): 405-423.

 

Effects of Urban Rail Transit Expansions: Evidence from Sixteen Cities with Matthew E. Kahn

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2005.

 

The Effects of New Public Projects to Expand Urban Rail Transit with Matthew E. Kahn

Journal of Public Economics, 2000, 77(2): 241-263.

 

Shorter Pieces

Review of The Wine Trials: 2010 by Robin Goldstein and Alexis Herschkowitsch

Journal of Wine Economics, 2010, 5(1): 205-208.

 

Mismeasurement of Usual Hours Worked in the Census and ACS with Derek Neal

Economics Letters, 2009, 102(1): 39-41.

 

Current Research Projects

Highway Construction, Changes in Commutes and the Impacts on Fuel Consumption

 

Learning About the Spatial Scope of Agglomeration Economies from Urban Transport Innovations

 

Urban Transportation, Land Use and Growth: Evidence from China 1995-2010 (with Vernon Henderson, Loren Brandt, Matthew Turner & Qinghua Zhang)

 

Did State Legal Environments Affect Foreclosure Rates? (with Vernon Henderson and Michael Suher)

 

Housing Destruction and Neighborhood Rebound: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina (with Justin Marion)

 

Understanding Public versus Private School Choice at the Local Level (with Byron Lutz)

 

Why Has Urban Inequality Increased? (with Ronni Pavan)

 

 

Teaching

Urban Economics (Undergraduate) current syllabus

Intermediate Microeconomics, Mathematical (Undergraduate) current syllabus

The Structure of Cities (Graduate) old syllabus