Working Papers

Topic / Urban

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  Delineating urban areas using building density
  Marie-Pierre de Bellefon, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon
• # 810
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  Mobility and congestion in urban India
  Prottoy A. Akbar, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton, Adam Storeygard
• # 807
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  Place-Based Policies for Development
  Gilles Duranton, Anthony J. Venables
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  Urban Revival in America, 2000 to 2010
  Victor Couture, Jessie Handbury
• # 798
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  Urban Accessibility: Balancing Land Use and Transportation
  Gilles Duranton, Erick Guerra
• # 795
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  What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High Cost Mortgages? The Role of High Risk Lenders
  Patrick Bayer, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira, Stephen L. Ross
• # 794
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  Urban form and driving: Evidence from US cities
  Gilles Duranton, Matthew A. Turner
• # 788
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  Urban form and driving: Evidence from U.S. Cities
  Gilles Duranton, Matthew A. Turner
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  Growing through Cities in Developing Countries
  Gilles Duranton
• # 778
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  Determinants of City Growth in Colombia
  Gilles Duranton
• # 773
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  Urban Governance and Development of Informality in China and India
  Arthur Acocca, Shahana Chattaraj, Susan M. Wachter
• # 772
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  Roads and Trade in Colombia
  Gilles Duranton
• # 771
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  Urban Land Use
  Gilles Duranton, Diego Puga
• # 770
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  Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics
  Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira
• # 765
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  Repeat Sales House Price Index Methodology
  Chaitra H. Nagaraja, Lawrence D. Brown, Susan M. Wachter
• # 762
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  The Growth of Cities
  Gilles Duranton, Diego Puga
• # 760
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  Estimating Racial Price Differentials in the Housing Market
  Patrick Bayer, Marcus Casey, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira, Robert McMillan
• # 758
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  Agglomeration Effects in Colombia
  Gilles Duranton
• # 755
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  Goods Prices and Availability in Cities
  Jessie Handbury, David E. Weinstein
• # 754
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  The Growth of Cities
  Gilles Duranton, Diego Puga
• # 753
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  Zombie Cities: Urban Form and Population Loss
  Georgette Chapman Phillips
• # 750
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  Growing Through Cities In Developing Countries
  Gilles Duranton
• # 742
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  Land and House Price Measurement in China
  Yongheng Deng, Joseph Gyourko, Jing Wu
• # 739
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  Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities
  Jessie Handbury
• # 738
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  Two Decades of Design and Development
  Witold Rybczynski
• # 737
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  Power Center Meets Lifestyle Center
  Brett K. Bannor
• # 724
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  Repeat Sales House Price Index Methodology
  Chaitra H. Nagaraja, Lawrence D. Brown, Susan M. Wachter
• # 714
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  Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom: U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009
  Fernando Vendramel Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko
• # 712
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  The Demand-Side of Urbanism
  Witold Rybczynski
• # 711
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  “Shrinking Cities” Revisited
  Witold Rybczynski, Peter Linneman
• # 710
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  The Dispersionist Manifesto
  Joel Kotkin
• # 709
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  The Do’s and Dont’s of City Finances
  Robert P. Inman
• # 677
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  New Urbanism and Sprawl
  Andrejs Skaburskis
• # 676
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  Traditional Architecture and Urbanism
  Andrés Duany
• # 669
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  An Urban Slice of Apple Pie: Rethinking Homeownership in U.S. Cities
  Georgette Chapman Phillips
• # 659
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  Development Regulations and Housing Affordability
  John Crosland, Jr.
• # 656
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  Ten Planning Successes
  John Landis
• # 651
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  Stylistic Trends in Multifamily Housing
  Michael Ytterberg
• # 647
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  High Gas Prices and Urbanism
  Witold Rybczynski
• # 643
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  Sustainable Homeownership
  Paul S. Calem, Marsha J. Courchane, Susan M. Wachter
• # 640
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  Understanding Commercial Real Estate: Just How Different From Housing Is It?
  Joseph Gyourko, Joseph Tracy
• # 635
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  Face-To-Face Places
  Joel Garreau
• # 630
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  City Beautiful
  Gerald A. Carlino, Albert Saiz
• # 625
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  Spatial Variation in the Risk of Home Owning
  Todd Sinai
• # 624
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  Urban Housing Demand
  Todd Sinai
• # 622
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  Garden City Suburbs
  Robert A.M. Stern
• # 621
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  The Suburban Archipelago
  Joel Kotkin
• # 610
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  Housing and Behavioral Finance
  Christopher J. Mayer, Todd Sinai
• # 608
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  Urban Housing Markets
  Joseph Gyourko
• # 606
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  Arbitrage in Housing Markets
  Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko
• # 604
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  Residential Land Recapitalization: Equity Returns for Debt Risk
  Larry Burnett, Caroline Jones, Adam Krug
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  Immigrants, Hispanics, and the Evolution of Housing Prices in the US
  Albert Saiz
• # 583
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  The Russian Investment Environment
  David Skinner
• # 581
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  How to Fix Detroit
  Albert B. Ratner
• # 579
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  Land-Use Regulation, House Prices and The New Social Contract
  Robert Bruegmann
• # 578
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  Regional Growth Variability
  Peter Linneman, Deborah Moy
• # 574
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  Urban Lessons from Katrina
  Jonathan Barnett
• # 567
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  Status Caste Exchange: Preferences for Race and Poverty Status of Neighbors in Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1970-2000
  Janice Fanning Madden
• # 566
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  Aggressive Lending and Real Estate Markets
  Andrey D. Pavlov, Susan M. Wachter
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  Housing Dynamics
  Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko
• # 560
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  Residential Land Use Regulation in the Philadelphia MSA
  Joseph Gyourko, Anita A. Summers
• # 555
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  Immigration and Real Estate Markets
  Albert Saiz
• # 554
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  The Playground City
  Joel Kotkin
• # 548
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  Superstar Cities
  Joseph Gyourko, Christopher J. Mayer, Todd Sinai
• # 547
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  Subprime Lending: Neighborhood Patterns Over Time
  Jonathan Hershaff, Susan M. Wachter, Karl Russo
• # 543
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  Who Lives Downtown Today?
  Eugenie L. Birch
• # 542
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  Rebuilding NOLA
  Witold Rybczynski
• # 540
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  The Kelo Decision
  Pamela M. Loughman, Georgette Chapman Phillips
• # 535
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  What is a Tree Worth? Green-city Strategies and Housing Prices
  Susan M. Wachter, Grace Wong
• # 534
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  A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods
  Patrick Bayer, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira, Robert McMillan
• # 530
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  Urban Decline and Durable Housing
  Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko
• # 529
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  Looking Back to Look Forward: What Can We Learn About Urban Development from Philadelphia’s 350 Year History?
  Joseph Gyourko
• # 527
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  Immigration and the Neighborhood
  Albert Saiz, Susan M. Wachter
• # 522
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  Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Misperceptions
  Charles Himmelberg, Christopher j. Mayer, Todd Sinai
• # 520
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  Creative Places
  Witold Rybczynski
• # 516
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  The West Philadelphia Story
  Judith Rodin
• # 511
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  Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Misperceptions
  Charles Himmelberg, Christopher J. Mayer, Todd Sinai
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  Balancing Private Development and Public Good
  Harris M. Steinberg
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  Hard Landing
  Witold Rybczynski
• # 498
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  Housing Supply Restrictions Across the United States
  Raven E. Saks
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  Land Hungry
  Georgette Chapman Poindexter
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  Urban Growth and Housing Supply
  Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, Raven E. Saks
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  Financing Cities
  Robert P. Inman
• # 475
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  Cities and Globalization
  Witold Rybczynski
• # 474
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  Global Financial Centers After 9/11
  Saskia Sassen
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  New York City’s Ten Year Capital Plan for Housing
  Richard T. Roberts, Jerry J. Salama, Michael H. Schill
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  Architecture and Density
  Saskia Sassen
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  Is There a Supply Side to Urban Revival?
  Joseph Gyourko, Albert Saiz
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  The Rise of the Skilled City
  Edward L. Glaeser, Albert Saiz
• # 436
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  The (Un)Changing Geographical Distribution of Housing Tax Benefits: 1980 to 2000
  Todd Sinai, Joseph Gyourko
• # 433
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  Immigration and Housing Rents in American Cities
  Albert Saiz, Susan M. Wachter
• # 429
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  The Art of the New Urbanist Deal
  Witold Rybczynski
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  Measuring Sprawl
  Witold Rybczynski
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  The Activities and Benefits of Smart Growth
  Robert W. Burchell, Anthony Downs, Catherine C. Galley, David Listokin
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  The Crash and Rebound of Canary Wharf
  David L. A. Gordon
• # 417
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  Why Does Anybody Still Live Here?
  Joseph Gyourko, Joseph Tracy
• # 409
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  Managing Metropolitan Futures: The Role of Information Intermediaries
  Joseph Ferreira, Andrew Reamer, Susan M. Wachter
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  Urban Decline and Housing Reinvestment: The Role of Construction Costs and the Supply Side
  Joseph Gyourko, Albert Saiz
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  The Impacts Of Affordable Lending Efforts On Homeownership Rates
  Roberto G. Quercia, George W. McCarthy, Susan M. Wachter
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  The Neighborhood Distribution of Subprime Mortgage Lending
  Paul S. Calem, Kevin Gillen, Susan M. Wachter
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  The Spatial Distribution of Housing-Related Tax Benefits in the United States
  Joseph Gyourko, Todd Sinai
• # 398
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  Measuring Changes in the Spatial Concentration of Income and Poverty Among Suburbs of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas
  Janice Fanning Madden
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  The Changing Spatial Concentration of Income and Poverty Among Suburbs of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas
  Janice Fanning Madden
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  Neighborhood Externality Risk and The Home Ownership Status of Properties
  Christian A. L. Hilber
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  Anistropic Autocorrelation in House Prices
  Kevin Gillen, Thomas Thibodeau, Susan M. Wachter
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  Urban Decline and Durable Housing
  Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko
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  Another View of Predatory Lending
  Jack Guttentag
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  Reversing Philadelphia’s Population Decline
  William G. Grigsby
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  Their Cities, and Ours
  Witold Rybczynski
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  Financing New Urbanism
  Joseph Gyourko, Witold Rybczynski
• # 367
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  An Economic Development Strategy for the City
  William G. Grigsby
• # 366
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  Capitalization of Federal Taxes, the Relative Price of Housing, and Urban Form: Density and Sorting Effects
  Richard Voith, Joseph Gyourko
• # 360
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  Godfathers Of Sprawl
  Witold Rybczynski
• # 350
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  A Semiparametric Investigation of Lower-Income Home Mortgage Purchases in the Secondary Mortgage Market
  Dapeng Hu
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  The Spatial Distribution of Affordable Home Loan Purchases in Major Metropolitan Areas: Documentation and Analysis
  Joseph Gyourko, Dapeng Hu
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  The Spatial Distribution of Housing-Related Tax Benefits in the United States [2.6MB PDF]
  Joseph Gyourko, Todd Sinai
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  Land Use Regulation and New Construction
  Christopher J. Mayer, C. Tsuriel Somerville
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  Financing New Urbanism Projects
  Joseph Gyourko, Witold Rybczynski
• # 329
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  The Price Elasticity of the Demand for Residential Land
  Joseph Gyourko, Richard Voith
• # 328
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  The Philadelphia Metropolitan Case Study
  Anita A. Summers
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  Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence from the Housing Market
  David Genesove, Christopher J. Mayer
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  Mortgage Terminations, Heterogeneity and the Exercise of Mortgage Options
  Yongheng Deng, John M. Quigley, Robert Van Order
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  The Differential Impacts of Federally Assisted Housing Programs on Nearby Property Values: A Philadelphia Case Study
  Chang Moo-Lee, Dennis P. Culhane, Susan M. Wachter
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  Mixed Income Housing Initiatives in Public Housing
  Brent W. Ambrose, William Grigsby
• # 308
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  Polarization and Public Housing in the United States
  William H. Carter, Michael H. Schill, Susan M. Wachter
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  An Economic Analysis of Housing Abandonment
  Benjamin P. Scafidi, Michael H. Schill, Susan M. Wachter