Data from the 2005 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) indicate suburbanites, compared with city dwellers, have on average higher per-capita residential energy consumption. However, it is not clear why suburbanites tend to consume more energy at home. Using a two-group structural equation modeling, I analyzed direct and total effects of household’s sociodemographic characteristics, income, and...

This study estimates the market value of clean air by examining the impact of air pollution on property prices. And has two important features that make our investigation feasible: 1) the variety of building forms and street locations resulted in significant variations in air quality across housing units and 2) the housing units are actively...

The urban land development options literature invariably assumes that developers are risk-averse and that the risks can be perfectly spanned in a complete urban land market are discussed in this working paper series. The proposed utility based real options model that allows for developers’ risk preferences and incomplete urban land markets shows that developers’ precautionary...

If the United States is to achieve the promise of the broadband revolution it will need to ensure that a much larger share of Americans are subscribers. This report examines whether programs intended to stimulate broadband adoption have fulfilled their purpose. 'Our focus is on quantitative evaluations that seek to measure the causal impact of...

Australia's decision to implement Internet censorship using technological means creates a natural experiment: the first Western democracy to mandate filtering legislatively, and to retrofit it to a decentralized network architecture. But are the proposed restrictions legitimate? The new restraints derive from the Labor Party's pro-filtering electoral campaign, though coalition government gives minority politicians considerable influence...