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David Albouy

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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The colonial origins of comparative development: an investigation of the settler mortality data

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DY Albouy - 2008 - nber.org
... Mortality Data.'” MIT mimeo, March 2005. _____. “Reply to the Revised (May 2006) version of
David Albouy's “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler
Mortality Data.'” MIT mimeo, September 2006. Anderson, TW and Rubin, Herman. ...
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[BOOK] Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live?: Improving Quality-of-life Estimates Across Cities

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DY Albouy… - 2008 - nber.org
Page 1. Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-Life Estimates
across Cities David Albouy1 University of Michigan, Department of Economics October
31, 2008 1I would like to thank Soren Anderson, Patricia ...
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The unequal geographic burden of federal taxation

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D Albouy - Journal of Political Economy, 2009 - JSTOR
In the United States, workers in cities offering above‐average wages—cities with high
productivity, low quality of life, or inefficient housing sectors—pay 27 percent more in federal
taxes than otherwise identical workers in cities offering below‐average wages. According ...
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[PDF] The colonial origins of comparative development: a reexamination based on improved settler mortality data

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D Albouy - Department of Economics, University of California– …, 2004 - emlab.berkeley.edu
Abstract In a seminal contribution, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) evaluate the
effect of property rights institutions on national income using mortality rates of early
European settlers as an instrument for the risk of capital expropriation. Going back to ...
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What are cities worth? Land rents, local productivity, and the capitalization of amenity values

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D Albouy - 2009 - nber.org
Across cities, estimates of local land rents and firm productivity are inferable from wage and
housing-cost data using knowledge of the housing cost function. Differences in amenity
values are capitalized into the sum of local land values and federal-tax payments. A ...
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[CITATION] The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: A Re-investigation of the data

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[PDF] What are Cities Worth? Land Rents, Local Productivity, and the Value of Amenities

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D Albouy - NBER Working Paper, 2009 - virginia.edu
Abstract If housing-production technology is uniform across cities, local land-rent and firm-
productivity differences can be inferred from wage and housing-cost data using the cost-
shares of land and labor in housing and non-housing production. Federal taxes and local ...
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The unequal geographic burden of federal taxation

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DY Albouy - 2008 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE UNEQUAL GEOGRAPHIC BURDEN
OF FEDERAL TAXATION David Y. Albouy Working Paper 13995 http://www.nber.
org/papers/w13995 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ...
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Partisan representation in Congress and the geographic distribution of federal funds

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D Albouy - 2009 - nber.org
In a two-party legislature, districts represented by the majority party may receive greater
spending if legislators in the majority have greater proposal power or disproportionately form
coalitions with each other. The type of spending received may depend on the party- ...
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The wage gap between Francophones and Anglophones: a Canadian perspective, 1970–2000

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D Albouy - … Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d' …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract. The wage gap between Francophone and Anglophone men from 1970 and 2000
fell by 25 percentage points within Quebec, but only by 10 points Canada-wide, largely
because the wages of Quebec Anglophones fell by 15 points relative to other Canadian ...
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[CITATION] The colonial origins of comparative development: an empirical investigation: comment

D Albouy - American Economic Review, 2011
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Are big cities bad places to live? Estimating quality of life across metropolitan areas

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D Albouy - 2008 - nber.org
The standard revealed-preference estimate of a city's quality of life is proportional to that
city's cost-of-living relative to its wage-level. Adjusting estimates to account for federal taxes,
non-housing costs, and non-labor income produces more plausible quality-of-life ...
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[CITATION] Are big cities really bad places to live

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[PDF] Metropolitan Land Values and Housing Productivity

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D Albouy, G Ehrlich - Manuscript, University of Michigan, 2011 - www-personal.umich.edu
Abstract We present the first nationwide index of directly-measured land values by
metropolitan area and investigate their relationship with housing costs. Regulatory and
geographic constraints, as well as construction costs, are shown to increase the cost of ...
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[PDF] The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxes and its Consequences: a Case for Tax Deductions?

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D Albouy - Unpublished manuscript (December 2007), 2006 - nber.org
Abstract Because federal income taxes are based on nominal incomes, workers with the
same real incomes pay more taxes in high-cost areas than in low-cost areas, without
receiving more in benefits. In the United States, workers in cities offering above-average ...
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[CITATION] Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-Life Estimates

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Evaluating the Efficiency and Equity of Federal Fiscal Equalization

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D Albouy - 2010 - nber.org
In theory, federal transfers that make household location decisions efficient will offset
differences in federal-tax payments and local tax revenues on capital, but not local tax
revenues from residents. Transfers that redistribute resources equitably across regions ...
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D Albouy, J Butler, D Card, P Courant, L Davis… - 2008 - Citeseer
... the source. Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-Life Estimates across
Cities (2008). Cached. Download as a PDF. Download Links. [www-personal.umich.edu]. Save
to List; Add to Collection; Correct Errors; Monitor Changes. by David Albouy , Js Butler ...
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Causes and consequences of unequal federal taxation and spending across regions

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UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection
of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, Causes and consequences of
unequal federal taxation and spending across regions. by ...
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Optimal city size and the private-social wedge

D Albouy, N Seegert - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The conventional wisdom is that market forces cause cities to be inefficiently large,
and public policy should limit city sizes. The foundation for this argument is based on the
unrealistic assumptions that city sites are homogeneous, federal taxes are absent, and ...
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[CITATION] The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the

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[PDF] The Impact of Climate Change on Household Welfare

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D Albouy, NW Graf, R Kellogg… - University of Michigan …, 2009 - ei.haas.berkeley.edu
Abstract This paper uses hedonic methods and variation in wages and housing costs to
estimate households' valuation of climate amenities. We find that, on the margin, household
are willing to pay more to reduce extreme heat than to reduce extreme cold. Combining ...
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[CITATION] Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live: Estimating Quality of Life across

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Do voters affect or elect policies? A new perspective, with evidence from the US Senate

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D Albouy - Electoral Studies, 2011 - Elsevier
Using quasi-experimental evidence from close elections, Lee et al.(2004)–henceforth LMB–
argue competition for voters in US House elections does not affect policy positions, as
incumbent Senate candidates do not vote more extremely if elected than non-incumbents. ...
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[CITATION] Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of

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[CITATION] Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality of Life

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[CITATION] Forthcoming. The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment

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[PDF] Quality of Life, Firm Productivity, and the Value of Amenities across Canadian Cities

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D Albouy, F Leibovici… - 2009 - qed.econ.queensu.ca
Abstract This paper presents the first hedonic general-equilibrium estimates of quality-of-life
and firm productivity differences across Canadian cities, using data on local wages and
housing costs. These estimates account for the unobservability of land rents and ...
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[CITATION] Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? A New Perspective using Evidence from the US Senate

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[PDF] The Geographic Incidence and Welfare Effects of Federal Tax Reform

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Abstract: Federal taxes penalize individuals for living in high-wage areas, while tax-benefits
to owner occupied housing subsidize them for living in high-cost areas and subsidize the
consumption of housing. As a result, productive areas are under-populated and housing is ...
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With our thanks to reviewers, 2005–2007

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M Aanesen, B Abrams, N Acocella, J Adams… - Public Choice, 2007 - Springer
Public Choice (2007) 133: 507–513 DOI 10.1007/s11127-007-9249-7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
... Published online: 23 October 2007 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2007 ...
Aanesen, Margrethe Abrams, Burton Acocella, Nicola Adams, James Afonso, Antonio ...

Valuing the Benefits of Public Infrastructure in American Cities

D Albouy - 2012 - research.upjohn.org
The goal of this project is to determine the benefit of public infrastructure investments to
households and firms through increases in land values and tax revenues. We collect data on
government infrastructure investments from the Census of Governments and use a ...
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[PDF] Driving to Opportunity: Local Wages, Commuting, and Sub-Metropolitan Quality of Life

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D Albouy… - 2011 - www-personal.umich.edu
Abstract In an equilibrium model of residential and workplace choice, we develop a measure
of quality of life, incorporating commuting costs and wages based on place of work, to
account for residential sorting on unobserved skills within metropolitan areas. Quality-of- ...
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[CITATION] 2009 Dissertation Award

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[CITATION] Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? Evidence from the US Senate (Extending Lee, Moretti, and Butler, 2004)

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[PDF] Aversion to Extreme Temperatures, Climate Change, and Quality of Life

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D Albouy, NW Graf, R Kellogg… - 2010 - www-personal.umich.edu
Abstract This paper uses hedonic methods and variation in wages and housing costs to
estimate households' valuation of climate amenities. We find that, on the margin, households
are willing to pay more to reduce extreme heat than to reduce extreme cold. Combining ...
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[PDF] DOES NEW YORK CITY PAY TOO MUCH IN FEDERAL TAXES RELATIVE TO COLUMBUS?

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D Albouy - www-personal.umich.edu
FEDERAL TAXES AND SPENDING HAVE LONG been distributed unequally across
geographic areas in the United States. Summarizing 24 years of scrupulous annual reports
entitled The Federal Budget and the States, Senator
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Causes and Consequences of Unequal Federal Taxation and Spending Across Regions: Dissertation Summary

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D Albouy - 2008 - research.upjohn.org
Abstract Most national governments exercise sovereignty over large geographic areas,
comprising a multitude of economically diverse cities and politically heterogeneous regions.
Unlike local governments, which typically must spend revenues in the same area in which ...
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[PDF] Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life

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D Albouy, NW Graf, R Kellogg… - 2011 - stanford.edu
Abstract This paper uses hedonic methods and variation in wages and housing costs to
estimate households' valuation of climate amenities. We find that, on the margin, households
are willing to pay more to reduce heat than to reduce cold. The willingness to pay to avoid ...
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[CITATION] Chronicle of a Deflation Unforetold Chronicle of a Deflation Unforetold (pp. 591-634) Contains supplements

FR Velde, D Albouy, J Brown, J Morgan… - Journal of Political …, 2009 - JSTOR
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[PDF] The Optimal Population Distribution across Cities and the Private-Social Wedge

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D Albouy, N Seegert - 2010 - www-personal.umich.edu
Abstract. The conventional wisdom is that market forces cause cities to be inefficiently large,
and public policy should limit city sizes. This wisdom assumes, unrealistically, that city sites
are homogeneous, that land is given freely to incoming migrants, and that federal taxes ...
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