Matthew Turner is a Professor of Economics at Brown University. He regularly teaches courses in urban and environmental economics, and occasionally, microeconomic theory. He is broadly interested in environmental and urban policy. Current projects investigate the relationship between Bus Rapid Transit systems and urban air pollution, the effect of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program on housing outcomes for the poor, the effect of sewer service on urbanization in the developing world, and the contribution of cities to economic growth. Professor Turner holds a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University, is a past Co-Editor of the Journal of Urban Economics and is the past President of the Urban Economics Association. His research appears in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies and Econometrica, and is regularly featured in the popular press.
Working papers:
Publications:
- The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago
- Michael Coury, Toru Kitagawa, Allison Shertzer, Matthew A. Turner
- Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
- Replication package
- Does the US have an Infrastructure Cost Problem? Evidence from the Interstate Highway System
- Neil Mehrotra, Juan Pablo Uribe and Matthew A. Turner
- Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming.
- Replication package
- Foundations of Cities
- Jacques Thisse, Mattthew Turner and Philip Ushchev.
- Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming.
- Subways and urban air pollution
- Nicholas Gendron-Carrier, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Stefano Polloni and Matthew A. Turner
- AEJ Applied, v14(1):164-96 2022
- Replication package
- Transportation infrastructure in the US
- Gilles Duranton, Geetika Nagpal and Matthew A. Turner
- in Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment, eds., E. Glaeser and J. Poterba, Universty of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Urbanization in the developing world: Too early or to slow?
- Does investment in national highways help or hurt hinterland city growth?
- Nathaniel Baum-Snow, J. Vernon Henderson, Matthew A. Turner, Qinghua Zhang, and Loren Brandt
- Journal of Urban Economics, v115, 2020
- Local transportation policy and economic opportunity
- The Brookings Institution, Hamilton Project policy proposal 2019-03, 2019
- Urban form and driving: Evidence from US cities
- Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner
- Journal of Urban Economics, v108:170-91, 2018
- Subways and urban growth: Evidence from Earth
- Speed
- Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner
- Review of Economics and Statistics, v100 no4:725-739, 2018
- Replication files
- Benefit transfer and spatial equilibrium
- Environmental and Resource Economics, v69 no3:575-589, 2018
- Transport infrastructure and the decentralization of cities in the Peoples Republic of China
- Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Matthew A. Turner
- Asian Development Review, v34 no 2:25-50, 2017
- Roads, railroads and decentralization of Chinese Cities
- Transportation costs and the spatial organization of economic activity
- Stephen J. Redding and Matthew A. Turner
- Elsevier Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics, volume 5, Elsevier, 2015.
- Land use regulation and welfare
- Matthew A. Turner, Andrew Haughwout and Wilbert van der Klaauw
- Econometrica, v82 no4:1341-1403, July 2014
- Roads and trade: Evidence from the US
- Gilles Duranton, Peter Morrow and Matthew A. Turner
- Review of Economic Studies, v82 no4:1341-1403, May 2014
- supplemental appendix
- Adaptation to climate change in preindustrial Iceland
- Matthew A. Turner, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Jian Chen and Chunyan Hao
- American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 102(3): 250-255, May 2012
- More detail is available in the longer version Advances and Applications in Statistics, 2012.
- Urban growth and transportation
- Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner
- Review of Economic Studies, 79(4):1407-1440, December 2012
- The fundamental law of road congestion: Evidence from the US
- The effects of land transfer taxes on real estate markets: Evidence from a natural experiment in Toronto
- Ben Dachis, Gilles Duranton, and Matthew A. Turner
- Journal of Economic Geography, pp. 1-28 doi:10.1093/jeg/lbr007, May 2011
- The value of information in public decisions
- Arvind Magesan and Matthew A. Turner
- BE Journal of Economics and Policy, 10(1):(Contributions), Article 76, July 2010
- Cost benefit analyses versus referenda
- Martin J. Osborne and Matthew A. Turner
- Journal of Political Economy, 118(1):156-187, February 2010
- Sand in the gears: Evaluating the effects of Toronto's land transfer tax
- Ben Dachis, Gilles Duranton, and Matthew A. Turner
- C.D.Howe working paper no 277, December 2008
- Decomposing the growth in residential land in the United States
- Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga, and Matthew A. Turner
- Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38:487-497, September 2008
- Data and documentation
- Fat city: Questioning the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity
- Jean Eid, Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga, and Matthew A. Turner
- Journal of Urban Economics, 63:385-404, March 2008
- The usefulness of imperfect elections
- Loren Brandt and Matthew A. Turner
- Economics and Politics, 19(3):453-480, November 2007
- A simple theory of smart growth and sprawl
- Matthew A. Turner
- Journal of Urban Economics, 61:21-44, January 2007
- Causes of sprawl: A portrait from space
- Marcy Burchfield, Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga, and Matthew A. Turner
- Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(2):587-633, May 2006
- Data and documentation.
- Landscape preferences and patterns of residential development
- Matthew A. Turner
- Journal of Urban Economics, 57:19-54, January 2005
- Meetings with costly participation: Reply
- Martin J. Osborne, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, and Matthew A. Turner
- American Economic Review, 95(4):1351-1354, September 2005
- Meetings with costly participation; An empirical analysis
- Matthew A. Turner and Quinn Weninger
- Review of Economic Studies, 72:247-268, January 2005
- Local government behavior and property right formation in rural china
- Loren Brandt, Scott Rozelle and Matthew A. Turner
- Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 160:627-662, December 2004
- Meetings with costly participation
- Martin J. Osborne, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, and Matthew A. Turner
- American Economic Review, 90(4):928-943, September 2000
- Tradition and common property management
- Matthew A. Turner
- Canadian Journal of Economics, 32(3):673-687, May 1999
- Parental altruism and common property management
- Matthew A. Turner
- Canadian Journal of Economics, 30(4a):809-821, November 1997
- Quota-induced discarding in heterogeneous fisheries
- Matthew A. Turner
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 33:186-195, June 1997
- Value-based ITQ's
- Matthew A. Turner
- Marine Resource Economics, 11:59-69, Summer 1996
- Industrial development in cities
- J. Vernon Henderson, Ari Kuncoro, and Matthew A. Turner
- Journal of Political Economy, 103(5):1067-1090, October 1995
