Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in...

This paper examines the regional impacts of trade liberalization in terms of college wage premia, housing costs, and urban amenities in the context of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and using granular data on Mexican municipalities between 1990 and 2010. I measure local...

This paper estimates the effects of a subway expansion on labor market outcomes in Santiago, Chile. First, we estimate these effects through a reduced-form analysis. We find changes in work locations and wages consistent with a reduction in firms' labor market power in areas where the subway...