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Matthew E. Kahn
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A nomad economist traveling around Southern California and Manhattan.

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Matthew E. Kahn is a leading American educator in the field of environmental economics. He is the Provost Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. Between 2019 and 2021, he served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business, with appointments at both Carey Business School and Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. .. more

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Lessons From Urban and Environmental Economics in Interpreting Randomized Field Experiments

John Cochrane’s great recent Substack caused me to write this piece about Causality and what we learn from academic field experiments.

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A Prospective Analysis of The Trump Administration's New Policy that Expands Access to "Miracle" Weight Loss Drugs
Many applied microeconomists have had successful research careers measuring the intended and unintended consequences of policy changes.
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A Prospective Analysis of The Trump Administration's New Policy that Expands Access to "Miracle" Weight Loss Drugs

Many applied microeconomists have had successful research careers measuring the intended and unintended consequences of policy changes. President Trump has enacted numerous “policy experiments” that will provide the academic community with a wealth of material for decades, allowing us to write new papers that test the current conventional wisdom.

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Mayor Mamdani's Policies Will Offer a High Stakes Test of the Urban Laffer Curve
I lived in Manhattan from 1968 until 1972 and from 1993 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2000.
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Mayor Mamdani's Policies Will Offer a High Stakes Test of the Urban Laffer Curve

I lived in Manhattan from 1968 until 1972 and from 1993 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2000. My son and my parents both live there. All of my grandparents lived their adult lives in New York City. So, the election of an avowed Socialist as Mayor interests me on several levels.

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Matthew E. Kahn @mattkahn1966.bsky.social · 6d
As the job market begins, I want to highlight a USC economics student who has written a better thesis than my 1993 "classic".
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Sneha Nimmagadda
Email Address: snimmaga@usc.edu Phone: +1 (310) 359-5293
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