Working Papers

The Lusk Center for Real Estate publishes papers on a wide-ranging set of topics including real estate finance and investments, land use, transportation, urban growth and regulation, asset pricing, and the line. These papers reflect real estate research undertaken by faculty in the Marshall School of Business, Price School of Public Policy and the Law School. Papers are available electronically below. For hard copies, contact Nina Tibayan.

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Year Title Author(s)
2017 Within-District School Lotteries, District Selection, and the Average Partial Effects of School Inputs

Eleanor Jawon Choi, Hyungsik Roger Moon, Geert Ridder

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2017 On the Value of Environmental Certification in the Commercial Real Estate Market

Rogier Holtermans, Nils Kok

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2017 Environmental Performance and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Commercial Mortgages and REIT Bonds

Piet Eichholtz, Rogier Holtermans, Nils Kok, Erkan Yonder

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2016 Learning by Working in Big Cities

Jorge De la Roca, Diego Puga

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2016 From Wall Street to Main Street: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Consumer Credit Supply

Rodney Ramcharan (with Stéphane Verani & Skander J. Van Den Heuvel)

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2015 Measuring Housing Adequacy in Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region

Arthur Acolin and Richard K. Green

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2015 Demand for 'The 1%': Tax Incidence and Implications for Optimal Income Tax Rates

Richard K. Green and Mark D. Phillips

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2015 Spillovers from Universities: Evidence from the Land-Grant Program

Shimeng Liu

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2015 The Impact of State Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Laws on Higher-Risk Lending: Evidence from FHA and Subprime Mortgage Originations

Qianqian Cao and Shimeng Liu

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2015 Age, Demographics, and the Demand for Housing, Revisited

Richard K. Green and Hyojung Lee

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2015 Housing Tenure and Unemployment

Richard K. Green and Bingbing Wang

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2015 Who Bears the Pen? Relative Income and Gender Gap in Mortgage Signing Order

Sumit Agarwal, Richard K. Green, Eric Rosenblatt, Vincent Yao, Jian Zhang

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2014 Toward an Urban Housing Strategy

Richard K. Green

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2014 Does service reliability influence transit patronage? Evidence from Los Angeles, and implications for transit policy

Sandip Chakrabarti and Genevieve Giuliano

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2014 Mortgage Foreclosures and the Shifting Context of Crime in Micro-Neighborhoods

Johanna Lacoe, Ingrid Gould Ellen

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2014 Human Capital Spillovers and Local Unemployment

Jung Hyun Choi and Richard K. Green

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2014 Estimation of an Education Production Function under Random Assignment with Selection

Eleanor Jawon Choi and Hyungsik Roger Moon and Geert Ridder

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2014 Do Rail Transit Stations Encourage Neighborhood Retail Activity?

Jenny Schuetz

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2013 Is the Art Market More Bourgeois Than Bohemian?

Jenny Schuetz and Richard K. Green

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2013 Does Residence in an Ethnic Community Help Immigrants in a Recession?

Pengyu Zhu, Cathy Yang Liu and Gary Painter

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