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Affiliated PhD Student

Ari Friedman

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MD/PhD Candidate in Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

About

Ari B. Friedman is a Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute and a sixth-year M.D./Ph.D. student in health economics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School. His research interests include the industrial organization of the unscheduled care system (primary care clinics, urgent care and retail clinics, and emergency departments), access to care and insurance, and financially integrating population health into the medical system. His work has been cited more than 600 times, with an h-index of 8.

 

Selected Publications

Friedman AB. Comment on Economic Incentives and Use of the Intensive Care Unit. JAMA 2014. 311(22):2336-2337.

Rhodes KV, Kenney GM, Friedman AB, Saloner B, Lawson CC, Chearo D, Wissoker D, Polsky D. Primary Care Access for New Patients on the Eve of Health Care Reform. JAMA Int Med 2014.

Becker NV, Friedman AB. Emergency Department, Heal Thyself. Am J Emerg Med 2014. 32(2):175-177.

Friedman AB, Mendola T. To Cover Their Child, One Couple Navigates A Health Insurance Maze In Pennsylvania. Health Affairs2013. 32(5):994-997.

Friedman AB, Becker N. Understanding the Individual Mandate’s SCOTUS Pivot Points. LDI Health Economist. April 2012.VIDEO

 

Penn IUR Scholar

Edward Glaeser

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Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Areas of Interest

    About

    Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard, where he also serves as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He studies the economics of cities, and has written widely on urban issues, including the growth of cities, segregation, crime, and housing markets. He has been particularly interested in the role that geographic proximity can play in creating knowledge and innovation. 

    Selected Publications

    Glaeser, Edward L. 2011. “Triumph of the City.” New York: Penguin Press. 

    Glaeser, Edward L. “Wealth and the Self-Protection Society.” In 100 Years: Leading Economists Predict the Future. Ed. Ignacio Palacios-Huerta. MIT Press, 2014.

    Glaeser, Edward L. “Urban Public Finance.” Handbook in Public Economics.Ed. Alan J. Auerbach, Raj Chetty, Martin Feldstein, and Emmanuel Saez. Elsevier B.V., 2013.

    Glaeser, Edward L., Christopher F. Chabris, James J. Lee, Daniel J. Benjamin, Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Gregoire Borst, Steven Pinker, and David I. Laibson. “Why It Is Hard to Find Genes Associated with Social Science Traits: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations.” American Journal of Public Health 103.S1 (October 2013): S152-S166.

    Glaeser, Edward L., Steve Poftak, and Kristina Tobio. “What Do Parents Want? An Exploration of School Preferences Expressed by Boston Parents.” HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-024, July 2013.

    Glaeser, Edward L. “A World of Cities: The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries.” National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2013.

    Fellow

    William Glasgall

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    Senior Vice President and Director, State and Local Initiatives, Volcker Alliance

    Areas of Interest

      About

      William Glasgall is Senior Vice President and Director, State and Local Initiatives, Volcker Alliance. He joined the Volcker Alliance in January 2014. Previously, he was managing editor at Bloomberg News, overseeing coverage of state and local government and financial news that won numerous awards from the Overseas Press Club and other organizations.

      His career also includes almost two decades at BusinessWeek Magazine, where he won two Overseas Press Club Awards for international reporting, and as a vice president at Standard & Poor’s. Mr. Glasgall is a member of the Municipal Fiscal Health Working Group of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; a governor of the Overseas Press Club Foundation; and a former member of the Board of Overseers of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University, where he was also a fellow.

      Fellow

      Ira Goldstein

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      President, Policy Solutions, Reinvestment Fund

      About

      Ira Goldstein, Ph.D., is the President of Policy Solutions at Reinvestment Fund, a results-oriented, socially responsible community investment group. Since 1999 when he joined Reinvestment Fund, Dr. Goldstein has conducted detailed spatial and statistical analyses in many cities and regions across the US. Those studies are used by local government to craft policy responses and allocate scarce resources based on assessment of the local real estate market conditions. He also has conducted studies of evictions, mortgage foreclosures and abusive lending practices and developed a novel approach to measuring actionable gaps in a community’s childcare environment. His work supported civil rights and consumer protection cases brought by federal, state and local governments. Before joining Reinvestment Fund, Dr. Goldstein served as mid-Atlantic Director of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity for the US Department of HUD.

      For more than 30 years, Dr. Goldstein has been a Lecturer for the University of Pennsylvania’s Urban Studies program. He instructs undergraduates and graduate students in research methods, statistics, and housing policy.

      Selected Publications

      Maybe it Really Does Take A Village: Supporting the creation of high-quality unsubsidized affordable rental housing in legacy cities with Emily Dowdall, Jacob Rosch and Kevin Reeves

      Evictions in Philadelphia with Al Parker and Rhea Acuna

      Demographics and Characteristics of Middle Neighborhoods in Select Legacy Cities with William Schrecker and Jacob Rosch. In Brophy, Paul C. (ed). 2016. On the Edge: America’s middle neighborhoods. NY: The American Assembly

      Making Sense of Markets: Using Data to Guide Reinvestment Strategies. In Federal Reserve Bank of SF & the Urban Institute (eds). 2014. What Counts: Harnessing data for America’s communities.

      Lost Values: A Study of Predatory Lending in Philadelphia. 2007. Philadelphia: Reinvestment Fund.

      Fellow

      Laurie Goodman

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      Institute Fellow, Housing Finance Policy Center

      Founder of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute

      Areas of Interest

        About

        Laurie Goodman is a vice president at the Urban Institute and codirector of its Housing Finance Policy Center, which provides policymakers with data-driven analyses of housing finance policy issues that they can depend on for relevance, accuracy, and independence. Goodman spent 30 years as an analyst and research department manager on Wall Street. From 2008 to 2013, she was a senior managing director at Amherst Securities Group LP, a boutique broker-dealer specializing in securitized products, where her strategy effort became known for its analysis of housing policy issues. From 1993 to 2008, Goodman was head of global fixed income research and manager of US securitized products research at UBS and predecessor firms, which were ranked first by Institutional Investor for 11 years. Before that, she held research and portfolio management positions at several Wall Street firms. She began her career as a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Goodman was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Hall of Fame in 2009.

        Goodman serves on the board of directors of MFA Financial, Arch Capital Group Ltd., and DBRS Inc. and is an adviser to Amherst Capital Management. She has published more than 200 journal articles and has coauthored and coedited five books. Goodman has a BA in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and an AM and PhD in economics from Stanford University.

        Affiliated PhD Student

        Caitlin Gorback

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        PhD Candidate, Applied Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

        School/Department

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          About

          Caitlin is a fifth year doctoral student in Wharton's Applied Economics program, specializing in urban and real estate economics. Her ongoing research includes how ride-sharing platforms reshape the commercial landscape of cities by changing residents' consumption patterns, and how liquid global capital flows influence illiquid local markets through housing transactions (joint with Professor Benjamin Keys). Other interests include issues of income and skill distributions in cities, and urban decline and revitalization. Prior to graduate school, Caitlin worked as a research associate at the Federal Research Bank of New York in the capital markets research function. She worked on researching underwater mortgages, the introduction of floating rate treasury notes, and drivers of stock market flash crashes. Caitlin earned her bachelor's degree at Duke University, majoring in Economics, where she wrote her honors thesis on trailer parks and low-income housing options. 

          Penn IUR Scholar

          Richard K. Green

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          Director, University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate; Lusk Chair in Real Estate

          Areas of Interest

            About

            Richard K. Green is the Director of the University of Southern California (USC) Lusk Center for Real Estate. Green is also the Lusk Chair in Real Estate and Professor at both the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Marshall School of Business. Before joining USC, Green was the Oliver T. Carr Jr., Chair of Real Estate Finance at the George Washington University School of Business. He also taught real estate finance and economics courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was principal economist and director of financial strategy and policy analysis at Freddie Mac. More recently, Green was a Visiting Professor of Real Estate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Green’s areas of expertise include real estate, housing markets, real estate finance and economics, mortgage finance, land policy, urban policy, transportation, tax policy, and housing policy. He is a member of two academic journal editorial boards and a reviewer for several others. 

            Selected Publications

            Green, Richard, and P. Hendershott. Forthcoming/ Separating the Impacts of Age and Birth Date on Retail Sales; Journal of Shopping Center Research.

            Green, Richard, and J. Schuetz. 2014. Is The Art Market More Bourgeois Than Bohemian?; Journal of Regional Science, 54(2,):273–303.

            Green, Richard K. 2011. Thoughts on Rental Housing Market and Policy. Cityscape, A Journal of Policy, Development and Research, 13(2).

            Green, Richard K. and A. Reschovsky. 2011. “Using Tax Policy to Subsidize Homeownership.” In Public Spending and Incentives for Community Development Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Aspen Institute, A. Staiger, ed.

            Green, R., and Susan Wachter. 2008. The Housing Finance Revolution (Proceedings of the 31st Annual Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium).

            Fellow

            Daniel Hartley

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            Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

            Areas of Interest

              About

              Daniel Hartley is a senior economist on the regional analysis team in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Prior to joining the regional team, he was a policy economist and a member of the Insurance Initiative. His primary research interests include insurance, urban economics and labor economics. His current work focuses on neighborhood housing market dynamics, crime, public housing, and the insurance industry. In addition, he is a member of the insurance initiative team. Prior to working at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, he was an economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland for almost 6 years.

              Hartley holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, a master of engineering in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

              Selected Publications

              Guerrieri, V., D. Hartley, and E. Hurst. 2013. Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics. Journal of Public Economics, 100: 45-60.

              Guerrieri, V., D. Hartley, and E. Hurst. 2012. Within-city Variation in Urban Decline: The Case of Detroit. American Economic Review - Papers and Proceedings, 102(3): 120-126.

              Hartley, D. and K. Fee. 2013. “The Relationship between City Center Density and Urban Growth or Decline.” In Revitalizing American Cities, Susan Wachter and Kimberly Zeuli, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

              Aliprantis, D. and D. Hartley. Blowing It Up and Knocking It Down: The Local and City-Wide Effects of Demolishing High Concentration Public Housing on Crime. (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Working Paper). http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/workpaper/2010/wp1022r.pdf.

              Fellow

              Andrew F. Haughwout

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              Interim Director of Research and Head of the Research and Statistics Group

              Areas of Interest

                About

                Andy F. Haughwout is the Director of Household and Public Policy Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is the Group’s Senior Administrative Officer and a co-editor of the Liberty Street Economics blog. In addition to his duties at the Bank, he serves on a Transportation Research Board panel investigating the value of transportation spending as economic stimulus. He is a past Chair of the North American Regional Science Council and the Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Analysis and serves on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Regional Science. Prior to joining the New York Fed, Haughwout served as Assistant Professor at Princeton University. 

                Affiliated PhD Student

                Ben Hyman

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                PhD Candidate, Applied Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

                Areas of Interest

                  About

                  Ben Hyman is a doctoral candidate in Applied Economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, affiliated with the Departments of Business Economics & Public Policy and Real Estate. Ben’s research interests span the fields of public finance, local labor markets, urban economics, and international trade. Ben received his B.A. (Honors) from the University of Southern California (USC), and holds an M.C.P. with a concentration in urban and regional economics from MIT. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a research associate with MIT’s poverty action lab (J-PAL). Ben’s current research focuses on two streams of work. The first concerns whether worker re-training programs help mitigate the adverse effects of local labor market disruptions. The second agenda studies the effects of state and local tax credit incentives on firm behavior and labor demand.

                   

                  Selected Publications

                  Can Displaced Labor be Retrained? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment to Trade Adjustment Assistance (2017) [Work-in-progress]

                  Firm Mobility and the Economic Development Effects of Location Subsidies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Tax Credit Lottery (2017) [Work-in-progress]

                  Harrison, A., Hyman, B., Martin, L., & Nataraj, S. (2015). When do Firms Go Green? Comparing Price Incentives with Command and Control Regulations in India (No. w21763). National Bureau of Economic Research.

                   

                  Penn IUR Scholar

                  Rucker C. Johnson

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                  Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley

                  Areas of Interest

                    About

                    Rucker C. Johnson is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley. Johnson is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Faculty Research Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard, a Research Affiliate at the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for Poverty Research at the University of Wisconsin. Johnson’s research is primarily concerned with the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances and opportunities. He looks at problems commonly associated with poverty such as low-wage labor markets, spatial mismatch, the societal consequences of incarceration, the impacts of childhood school and neighborhood quality on adult health and socioeconomic success, and educational attainment. 

                    Selected Publications

                    Johnson, Rucker C., Ariel Kalil, and Rachel Dunifon. 2010. Mothers’ Work and Children’s Lives: Low-income Families After Welfare Reform. Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute Press.

                    Johnson, Rucker C. 2011. Health Dynamics and the Evolution of Health Inequality over the Life Course: The Importance of Neighborhood and Family Background. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Advances.

                    Johnson, Rucker C., Ariel Kalil, and Rachel Dunifon. 2011. Employment Patterns of Less-Skilled Workers: Links to Children’s Behavior and Academic Progress. Demography, 47(3).

                    Johnson, Rucker C. 2010. The Health Returns of Education Policies: From Preschool to High School & Beyond. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.

                    Affiliated PhD Student

                    Rebecca Jorgensen

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                    Phd Candidate in Wharton's Applied Economics Program

                    About

                    Rebecca Jorgensen is a sixth year PhD student in Wharton's Applied Economics program with research interests in household finance, real estate, and industrial organization economics. Her current research studies how mergers between residential real estate brokerages and mortgage lenders affect the structure of the mortgage market and the interest rate paid by borrowers. Her other work examines how increasing ridership on public transit affects travel time. Prior to graduate school, Rebecca worked as a Research Assistant at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on projects related to financial stability and competition, which is where her interest in mortgage markets began. Rebecca holds a Masters degree in Economics and a Bachelors degree in Quantitative Economics and Mathematics, all from Miami University.

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