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
Working
Papers
Why Has Urban Inequality Increased? with Ronni Pavan
and Matthew Freedman
Urban Transport Expansions, Employment
Decentralization, and the Spatial Scope of Agglomeration Economies
Roads, Railroads and Decentralization of Chinese
Cities
with Loren Brandt, J. Vernon Henderson, Matthew A. Turner and Qinghua Zhang
Transportation and the
Decentralization of Chinese Cities with Matthew A. Turner
Publications
Causal
Inference in Urban and Regional Economics
with Fernando Ferreira, Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics, forthcoming
Inequality and City Size
with Ronni Pavan, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013,
95(5): 1535-1548.
(replication data and code)
Understanding the
City Size Wage Gap
with Ronni Pavan, Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79(1):
88-127.
(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
Changes in Urban Population Densities Over the Next 40 Years
Cityscape: A
Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2013, 15(3):
171-174.
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
Urban
Transportation, Land Use and Growth: Evidence from China 1995-2010 (with
Vernon Henderson, Loren Brandt, Matthew Turner & Qinghua
Zhang)
Highway
Construction, Changes in Commutes and the Impacts on Fuel Consumption (with
Yong Suk Lee)
Understanding
Public versus Private School Choice at the Local Level (with Byron Lutz)
Teaching
The Structure of Cities (Graduate)
old syllabus
Intermediate Microeconomics,
Mathematical (Undergraduate) old syllabus
Urban Economics (Undergraduate) current syllabus