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Overview

Matthew E. Kahn is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their primary field of research is Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a strong focus on subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, and Finance.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects with particular emphasis on Housing Market and Economics, Insurance and Financial Risk Management, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, and Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis.

Kahn has a substantial publication record, with research appearing frequently in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Contemporary Economic Policy, arXiv (Cornell University), Energy Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.

Some recent papers authored by Kahn include:

  • Long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change: A cross-country analysis (2021), Energy Economics
  • Clean air as an experience good in urban China (2021), Ecological Economics

Kahn's frequent collaborators include Robert Huang, Jan K. Brueckner, Amine Ouazad, Amine Charles-Louis Ouazad, and Jerry Nickelsburg.

In addition to articles, Matthew E. Kahn has contributed to academic books, including one published by Johns Hopkins University Press titled Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities (2021).

Best Publications

  • The Death Toll from Natural Disasters: The Role of Income, Geography, and Institutions

    Matthew E. Kahn

  • The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development

    Edward L. Glaeser;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Sprawl and Urban Growth

    Edward L. Glaeser;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Why do the poor live in cities? The role of public transportation ✩

    Edward L. Glaeser;Matthew E. Kahn;Matthew E. Kahn;Jordan Rappaport

  • The consequences of spatially differentiated water pollution regulation in China

    Zhao Chen;Matthew E. Kahn;Matthew E. Kahn;Yu Liu;Zhi Wang

  • Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment

    Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist's Perspective

    Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990

    Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Do greens drive Hummers or hybrids? Environmental ideology as a determinant of consumer choice

    Matthew E. Kahn

  • Decentralized Employment and the Transformation of the American City

    Edward L. Glaeser;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Water Pollution Progress at Borders: The Role of Changes in China's Political Promotion Incentives

    Matthew E. Kahn;Pei Li;Daxuan Zhao

  • Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998

    Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • China’s bullet trains facilitate market integration and mitigate the cost of megacity growth

    Siqi Zheng;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Incentives for China's urban mayors to mitigate pollution externalities: The role of the central government and public environmentalism ☆

    Siqi Zheng;Matthew E. Kahn;Weizeng Sun;Danglun Luo

  • Air pollution lowers Chinese urbanites’ expressed happiness on social media

    Siqi Zheng;Jianghao Wang;Cong Sun;Xiaonan Zhang

  • Estimating Housing Demand With an Application to Explaining Racial Segregation in Cities

    Patrick Bajari;Matthew E Kahn

  • The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data

    Leah Platt Boustan;Matthew E. Kahn;Paul W. Rhode;Maria Lucia Yanguas

  • Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment

    Matthew E. Kahn

  • Understanding China's Urban Pollution Dynamics

    Siqi Zheng;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Land and residential property markets in a booming economy: New evidence from Beijing

    Siqi Q. Zheng;Matthew E. Kahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Dora L. Costa
Dora L. Costa University of California, Los Angeles
Edward L. Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University
Patrick Bajari
Patrick Bajari University of Washington
Lucas W. Davis
Lucas W. Davis University of California, Berkeley
Joshua Graff Zivin
Joshua Graff Zivin University of California, San Diego
Erin T. Mansur
Erin T. Mansur Dartmouth College
John M. Quigley
John M. Quigley University of California, Berkeley
V. Kerry Smith
V. Kerry Smith Arizona State University
Stuart A. Gabriel
Stuart A. Gabriel University of California, Los Angeles

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