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 Joshua D. Gottlieb. "The Economics of Place-Making Policies." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2 (Spring 2008): 155-239.
    • Glaeser, Edward L., and Bruce I. Sacerdote. "Education and Religion." Journal of Human Capital 2.2 (Summer 2008): 188-215.
    • Glaeser, Edward L, Joseph Gyourko, and Albert Saiz. "Symposium: Mortgages and the Housing Crash: Housing Supply and Housing Bubbles." Journal of Urban Economics 64.2 (September 2008): 198-217.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Social Capital and Urban Growth." International Regional Science Review 32.3 (July 2009): 264-299.
  • 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.
  • Op-Eds
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Houston, New York has a Problem." New York Sun, July 16, 2008.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Educating Ourselves about Education." Boston Globe, October 3, 2008.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "This Old House Policy." Boston Globe, November 2, 2008.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Want Better Schools? Hire Better Teachers." Boston Globe, November 7, 2008.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Don't Just Spend, Do It Wisely." New York Times, November 25, 2008.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "New Lending Deals Won't Bring Back 2006." Boston Globe, December 5, 2008.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Who Should Get the Federal Stimulus Funds." Boston Globe, January 5, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "The GOP Has a Dumb Mortgage Idea." Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2009.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Infrastructure Needs a Bill of Its Own." Boston Globe, February 6, 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.
  • 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.
    • Glaeser, Edward L., and William R. Kerr. "Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?" Harvard Business School Working Papers 09-055, October 2008.
    • Glaeser, Edward L, and Joshua D. Gottlieb. "The Economics of Place-Making Policies." NBER Working Papers 14373, October 2008.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Social Capital and Urban Growth." NBER Working Papers 14374, October 2008.
    • Glaeser, Edward L, Matthew G. Resseger, and Kristina Tobio. "Urban Inequality." NBER Working Papers 14419, October 2008.
  • Reviews
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Auto-Emancipation." Review of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do: And What It Says About Us, by Tom Vanderbilt New Republic, 239.2, August 13, 2008: 36-39.
    • Glaeser, Edward L. "Foreclosing the Crisis." Review of The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth, by Robert C. Ellickson. New Republic, 240.1, February 4, 2009: 45-47.