Earnings inequality has increased for close to twenty years - until, perhaps, a temporary reversal occurred starting in 1997 - and income inequality has almost certainly increased more than earnings inequality. Earnings inequality has increased for a sound economic reason: rising returns to...

Residential land use controls in metropolitan areas are intended to and typically do restrict housing supply and inevitably raise housing prices. This paper estimates the effects of metropolitan area land use controls on housing prices, employing a remarkable data set compiled by Gyourko, Saiz...