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How Have Universities Survived for Nearly a Millenium

Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L. - 2026

How have universities managed to survive and evolve over almost 1,000 years to become wildly heterogeneous, unusually fractious, multi-product, non-profit entities? Universities began as teachers' guilds, and they still give faculty a remarkable degree of autonomy. That structure attracts and...

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How Reform Happens

Djankov, Simeon; Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2026

What determines whether and how regulations are reformed? We use a newly constructed data set of 3,590 successful and failed regulatory reforms in 189 countries, between 2005 and 2022, to address this question. We document that regulations have become more business friendly in some regulatory...

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How reform happens

Djankov, Simeon; Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2026

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Prices versus quantities revisited : what do policymakers need to know to set Pigouvian taxes and subsidies?

DiPasquale, Denise; Glaeser, Edward L.; Guren, Adam M.; … - 2026 - This version: June 2026

What information do policymakers need to design Pigouvian taxes or subsidies? Standard logic suggests that it is sufficient to know the size of the externality and unnecessary to know about quantities. Yet this logic is incorrect if interventions have fixed costs, taxes create deadweight losses,...

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Prices Versus Quantities Revisited : What Do Policymakers Need to Know to Set Pigouvian Taxes and Subsidies?

DiPasquale, Denise; Glaeser, Edward L.; Guren, Adam M.; … - 2026

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Why has construction productivity stagnated? The role of land-use regulation

D'Amico, Leonardo; Glaeser, Edward L.; Gyourko, Joseph E.; … - 2025

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The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Ashraf, Nava; Delfino, Alexia; Glaeser, Edward L.; … - 2025

In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national income, which reverses the well-known U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation and economic development. This paper presents a model of entrepreneurship in...

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Measuring Neighborhood Change : The Issue of Ex Post Borders

Glaeser, Edward L.; Gyourko, Joseph E.; Neiszner, Braydon - 2025

Do more populous neighborhoods grow less quickly than less populous areas? Is local housing price growth associated with initial population density? The Longitudinal Tract Data Base's (LTDB) panel of Census tracts is the standard tool for measuring neighborhood change. The LTDB is based on 2010...

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America's Housing Supply Problem : The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Gyourko, Joseph E. - 2025

Housing prices across much of America have hit historic highs, while less housing is being built. If the U.S. housing stock had expanded at the same rate from 2000-2020 as it did from 1980-2000, there would be 15 million more housing units. This paper analyzes the decline of America's new...

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Workplace segregation between college and non-college workers

Dillon, Francis; Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - 2025

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Workplace Segregation between College and Non-college Workers

Dillon, Francis M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - 2025

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Agglomeration, Segregation and Imperial Origins

Faia, Ester; Glaeser, Edward L.; Simonelli, Saverio; … - 2025

What explains the dramatic differences in earnings across locations? We employ an administrative employer-employee linked dataset from Italy that includes the country's entire workforce to estimate firm-worker or location-worker effects. We also estimate differences in human capital accumulation...

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