Workforce

Article December 16, 2020 Unemployment Still at Double Digits in Major Cities Trends in unemployment rates by metro and “city-counties” since the onset of COVID-19, compared to the Global Financial Crisis. State & Local Finance
Article November 18, 2020 Monitoring Recovery in Employment in New York City Losses in employment in selected industries in New York City between February 2020, just before the effects of the coronavirus pandemic were first felt in the city, and September 2020. Urban Development
Publication May 18, 2020 Commuting and Innovation: Are Closer Inventors More Productive? My dissertation, which is composed of three papers, looks at how geography and housing markets affect economic outcomes at the individual, firm, and industry levels, both within and across regions. Urban Development
Publication January 28, 2020 Cities and the Young Cities matter. They account for 80 percent of global output, with the level of urbanization positively correlated with the level of economic development and quality of life. Kyung-Hwan Kim Urban Development
Emerging Scholar Ben Hyman
Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
State & Local Finance
Affiliated PhD Student Daniel Stuckey
Doctoral Candidate in Education Policy, University of Pennsylvania
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Scholar Rebecca Diamond
Class of 1988 Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
State & Local Finance
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Fellow Sarah Rosen Wartell
President, Urban Institute
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2
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Fellow Joseph Tracy
Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
State & Local Finance
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Scholar Jesse Rothstein
The Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, University of California Berkeley Director, California Policy Lab
State & Local Finance
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Faculty Fellow Laura Perna
GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education Vice Provost for Faculty Executive Director, Penn AHEAD
Urban Development State & Local Finance + 1
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Faculty Fellow Mark Alan Hughes
Director Emeritus, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy fFormer Professor of Practice, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
Urban Development
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Faculty Fellow Camille Zubrinsky Charles
Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Education, School of Arts and Sciences
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1
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Fellow Stuart Andreason
Executive Director, Burning Glass Institute Founding Director of the Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

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