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| David Cutler
October 4, 2021, Audio: "On this edition of Conversations, David Cutler talks with host Dan Skinner about “Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation(link is external).” Cutler is a professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He has served on the Council of Economic Advisors and the National Economic Council and has advised businesses and governments on health care."…
| Edward Glaeser
September 2021, Paper: " Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the 1980s? This essay selectively reviews the copious literature that now exists on the long-term impact of natural disasters. At this point, the long-run resilience of cities to many forms of physical destruction, including bombing, earthquakes and fires, has been well-documented. The destruction of human capital may leave a longer imprint,…
| Edward Glaeser | David Cutler
September 2021, Book: "One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated. Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for…
| Edward Glaeser | David Cutler
September 7, 2021, Audio: ""Not only was our healthcare system failing us in its job of keeping us healthy for as little dollar and resource costs as possible, now we know it's also failing in its ability to keep us safe from pandemic."" Listen Via the Talking Beats Podcast
HKS Authors - David Cutler and Edward Glaeser
| Edward Glaeser | David Cutler
September 4, 2021, Opinion: "Migration has been central to the American story since the beginning. In the early 19th century, New Englanders left the rocky soil of Massachusetts for the more fertile Ohio River valley. During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, farmers fled Oklahoma for California. In the early 20th century, millions of African-Americans left the Jim Crow South to find work in the factories of northern cities. Through the 20th century,…
August 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, on the future of remote work and the emerging culture of work-from-anywhere (WFA). | …
| Edward Glaeser
May 2021, Paper: "The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome, just as they are today in Sao Paulo and Lagos. Our urban past provides lessons for developing world cities today. The first lesson, that I highlight, is that political power, not commerce, has long driven the growth of the world’s largest cities, and that fact remains true for many developing…
| Edward Glaeser
April 2021, Paper: "How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities? This paper incorporates insecure property rights into a standard model of urban land prices and density, and makes predictions about investment in land and property, informality, and the efficiency of land use. Our empirical analysis links data on institutions for land titling and…
| Edward Glaeser
April 21, 2021, Video: "In this masterclass, titled 'The Economics of Cities' Edward Glaeser explores the economic history of cities and their principal industries, while, in turn, considering the trends that the current COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to in the current context as well."
Non-HKS Author - Edward Glaeser
| Linda Bilmes
June 25, 2020, Opinion, "While many of us may hope the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is behind us — in spite of the recent surge in new cases across the country — for the nation’s states, cities, and towns the worst is still ahead. The new fiscal year begins on July 1 for these governments, which together provide the public with schools, water, sanitation, trash collection, fire safety, emergency medical response, and infrastructure. They…