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)
2013 Unequally Safe

Johanna Lacoe

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2013 High stakes in the classroom, high stakes on the street: The effects of community violence on students’ standardized test performance

PatrickSharkey, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Johanna Lacoe

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2013 How Feelings of Safety at School Affect Educational Outcomes

Johanna Lacoe

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2013 Do Art Galleries Stimulate Redevelopment?

Jenny Schuettz

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2013 Does light rail transit increase physical activity?

Andy Hong, Marlon G. Boarnet, Doug Houston

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2012 Does Density Matter?

Peter Gordon Sanford Ikeda

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2012 Causal Agents or Canaries in the Coal Mine? Art Galleries and Neighborhood Change

Jenny Schuetz

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2012 Measuring the Benefits of Homeowning: Effects on Children Redux

Richard K. Green, Gary Painter and Michelle J. White

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2012 The Film Industry and Urban Development in Metropolitan Los Angeles

Stephanie Frank

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2012 Caught in the Housing Bubble: Immigrants' Housing Outcomes in Traditional Gateways and Newly Emerging Destinations

Gary Painter and Zhou Yu

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2012 Spontaneous Cities

Peter Gordon

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2012 Thinking About Economic Growth: Cities, Networks, Creativity and Supply Chains for Ideas

Peter Gordon

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2012 Cities In Western Europe and The United States: Do Policy Differences Matter?

Peter Gordon and Wendell Cox

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2011 What happens to household formation in a recession?

Gary D. Painter and Kwan Ok Lee

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2011 Housing Tenure Transitions of Older Households: How close do they want to live to their kids?

KwanOk Lee and Gary Painter

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2011 The Impact of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 on Housing Turnover in the U.S. Single Family Residential Market

Andrea J. Heuson and Gary Painter

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2011 The nature of information and its effect on bidding behavior: laboratory evidence in a common value auction

Isabelle Brocas, Juan D. Carrillo, and Manuel Castro

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2011 Tiered Housing Allocation: an Experimental Analysis

Juan D Carrillo and Saurabh Singhal

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2011 Household Location and Race: A Twenty-Year Retrospective

Stuart A. Gabriel and Gary D. Painter

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2010 Sunk Costs and Mortgage Default

Richard K. Green, Eric Rosenblatt and Vincent Yao

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