Matthew E. Kahn

Should Federal Homeownership Subsidies Shrink? The Federal Government spends billions subsidizing homeownership.

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Documenting Recent Convergence in Home Prices Across Local U.S Real Estate Markets Zillow uses its Big Data on local real estate markets to create interesting data for the public to play with.

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A New Supermodel Competition! What wildfire risk model should the California Insurance Regulator use to determine whether "price gouging" on insurance premiums is taking place?

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The Impact of AI Adoption on Worker Productivity and Quality of Life What if Michael Jordan Had to Mow His Own Lawn?

David Autor has coauthored an interesting new AI paper that gives me the opportunity to discuss Michael Jordan and robots.
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An Economic (Human Capital) Theory of Stagnant U.S Nuclear Power Generation Innovation The Lasting Effect of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island

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The lizard king still walks the tough streets of Westwood.

Will the Rise of WFH Improve Urban Governance? During the COVID crisis, the looming threat of an "Urban Doom Loop" became apparent.

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How Will We Adapt as Red States Reduce Their Supply of New Housing? Some Thoughts About Glaeser and Gyourko (2025)

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A Microeconomic Perspective on the Long Term Benefits of Geoengineering In this audio podcast, I talk about a 2024 PNAS paper.

My thoughts about the benefits of geoengineering. These researchers overstate the benefits because they ignore adaptation progress.
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YouTube video by Hoover Institution Climate Adaptation After The Los Angeles Wildfires | Markets Vs. Mandates | Hoover Institution

Here is the video from our recent event.
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YouTube video by Hoover Institution Climate Adaptation After The Los Angeles Wildfires | Markets Vs. Mandates | Hoover Institution

A video of our recent panel on disaster risk mitigation. I thank Margaret and Judd for a great discussion.
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Of Mice and Men (and Robots) Here you can read the teaser first half of a Paul Krugman column posing the key question of whether AI will destroy many American jobs or make us more productive.

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Are Energy Guzzling Data Centers "Bad Neighbors"? A Sexy New Example of a Pecuniary Externality!

A 2025 Pecuniary or Pigouvian Externality?
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Adaptation to Chronic Disease Risk Millions of Americans have chronic health conditions and our health system spends billions on treating them.

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Long-Term Health Improvements and Economic Performance Among Individuals With Diabetes This cross-sectional study explores whether the health improvements of people with diabetes have matched the economic progress of this patient population.

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Will the Public Sector Incorporate AI at the Same Rate as the Private Sector? My answer is “no”!

My homage to Paul Romer.
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The Gains from Deregulating the California Residential Real Estate Insurance Market California should deregulate residential real estate insurance and allow insurers to offer any policy to anyone at any price.

My new substack column on implicit subsidies in insurance markets.
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WFH's Role in the Modern Labor Market The U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just released an excellent report titled; “Telework: Private Sector Stakeholder and Expert Views”.

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Understanding the Republican Reversal on the Merits of Free Trade Every Econ 101 student is taught the theory of international trade and the gains and losses from free trade.

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The Economic Implications of Transforming Some Federal Land into New Exurban Housing Supply and Demand!

My new substack column.
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Decentralizing (and Partially Privatizing) the Financing of Head Start James Heckman and Alison Baulos have written an important OP-ED piece published in The Hill.

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Judging Product Quality Based on Low Probability Events In my undergraduate economics classes at USC, I pose the following riddle.

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Black Power Scorecard From the creator of “a unified field theory of racism” (NPR’s Planet Money), a dollars-and-cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new fram...

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An interesting graph? I am finishing an article that studies the causes and consequences of such urban quality of life dynamics. @officialgrammarly.bsky.social and I are writing a new book on urban quality of life that I will release in 2 weeks.

What Does Forrest Gump's Shrimping Profit Teach Us About the Domestic Winners from Tariff Increases? In the 1994 Blockbuster movie titled Forrest Gump, Mr.

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A Sketch of My Urban Economics Final Exam Focused on the Effects of the Trump Tariffs Can you answer these questions?

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When Are Reciprocal Tariff Threats From Small Nations Credible? Akerlof+Krugman = ?

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Some Waymo Economics! In this Substack, I will not discuss the Trump Tariffs.

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Kid Rock and President Trump Teach Me Some Economics My father always asks me, “What have you learned recently?” For once, I have an answer.

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Facts About Labor Market Dynamics in California versus Texas I use data from this website to teach you some facts about local labor market dynamics in Texas versus California.

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