Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023
Massachusetts slowly shrunk by 90% for exogenous reasons between 1963 and 1990. While water supply decreased, land supply increased … outweighed the growth in land supply and other positive effects. A quantitative spatial model used to rationalize these results … allows us to study the aggregate and spatial effects of policies related to migration, land use, trade, roads, and cities. …