Edward Glaeser

Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics
Director
Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Director
Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
Office Address
Taubman-318
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 114
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-2150
Fax: 617-496-1722
Email: Edward_Glaeser@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Erin Dea (617-495-5140)
Edward Glaeser

Profile

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He is Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Director of the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston. He teaches urban and social economics and microeconomic theory. He has published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and law and economics. In particular, his work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992.

 

Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Glaeser, Edward L., and Bryce A. Ward. "The Causes and Consequences of Land Use Regulation: Evidence from Greater Boston." Journal of Urban Economics 65.3 (May 2009): 265-278.
    • Glaeser, Edward L., and Charles Redlick. "Social Capital and Urban Growth." International Regional Science Review 32.3 (July 2009): 264-299.
    • Glaeser, Edward L., and William R. Kerr. "Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?" Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 18.3 (Fall 2009): 623-663.
    • Glaeser, Edward L., Matt Resseger, and Kristina Tobio. "Inequality in Cities." Journal of Regional Science 49.4 (October 2009): 617-646.
    • Glaeser, Edward L., and Joshua D Gottlieb. "The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States." Journal of Economic Literature 47.4 (December 2009): 983-1028.
    • Glaeser, Edward L., and Matthew G. Resseger. "The Complementarity Between Cities and Skills." Journal of Regional Science 50.1 (February 2010): 221-244.
  • Books
    • Glaeser, Edward L. Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium. Oxford University Press, 2008.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. Rethinking Federal Housing Policy. American Enterprise Institute Press, 2008.
  • Magazine and Newspaper Articles
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Green Cities, Brown Suburbs." City Journal. Winter 2009, 50-51.
  • Op-Eds
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "California's Green Meanies." Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Building Walls with U.S. Trading Partners." Boston Globe, March 6, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Build More Skyscrapers." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 15, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Abandoning the Pillars of Sound Policy." Boston Globe, April 4, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Blessings of a Divided Government." Boston Globe, May 1, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "The Problem with Bailouts." Boston Globe, June 5, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Put Transit Where the People Are." Boston Globe, July 3, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Program has Clunky Reasoning." Boston Globe, August 8, 2009.
    • Retsinas, Nicolas. "The Rise of the Renter-chic." Boston Globe, August 16, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Rolling the Dice on Wasteful Home Subsidies." Boston Globe, October 3, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "With Tax Break, a Big Carbon Footprint." Boston Globe, November 5, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Too Risky to Regulate? Not with Proper Verification." Boston Globe, December 3, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Transparency is the Cure for Those Fifth-term Blues." Boston Globe, January 3, 2010.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Success of the Left in Europe, the Right in US." Boston Globe, February 5, 2010.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Glaeser, Edward L., and Matthew Kahn. "The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development." NBER Working Papers 14238, August 2008.
    • Campante, Filipe R., and Edward L. Glaeser. "Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago." NBER Working Papers 15104, June 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L., Stuart Rosenthal, and William C. Strange. "Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship." NBER Working Papers 15536, November 2009.
    • Zheng, Siqi, Rui Wang, Edward L. Glaeser, and Matthew E. Kahn. "The Greenness of China: Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development." NBER Working Papers 15621, December 2009.
  • Reviews
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "What a City Needs." Review of Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City, by Anthony Flint. New Republic, 240.16, September 9, 2009: 42-45.