Hector Blanco @_Hector_Blanco

AP Economics @RutgersU. Previously: @FurmanCenterNYU. Public, Urban and Housing. PhD @MITEcon. hector-blanco.github.io New York, NY Joined March 2021

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Nathaniel Hendren @nhendren82

2 weeks ago

📢 Call for Small Grant Proposals 📢 Measuring the causal effect of a policy change and seeking to measure its Marginal Value of Public Funds? Apply for an Early Career Scholars Grant @PolicyImpacts to support your work: policyimpacts.org/announcements/…

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Zachary Liscow @ZLiscow

3 weeks ago

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ @cailin_slattery & @WNober) - When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over - Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay

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Filippo Tassinari @FilippoT7

4 weeks ago

🚨 Our working paper The Price of Silence is out! Thrilled that @el_pais featured our research on noise & housing prices. Great to see our work making an impact beyond academia! 📰 Article (in Spanish): shorturl.at/rLBYC 📄 WP: shorturl.at/MheQ4 With @marimagagno

IEB @FundacioIEB

2 months ago

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The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal

2 months ago

Replacing distressed public housing with mixed-income housing raises local prices & improves local amenities. Just Accepted new paper by Hector Blanco @_Hector_Blanco and Lorenzo Neri @lorenz_06 zurl.co/YyIqS

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Jason Abaluck @Jabaluck

3 months ago

The modern economic case for public provision is not about public goods or market failures or externalities. It is about what can and can't be achieved by contracting.

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Jacob Bastian @JacobBastian25

4 months ago

My first @BrookingsInst blog! Evidence from 30 countries: EITC-style wage subsidies consistently raise employment—esp among single parents and marginal workers—and remain one of the best policies to reduce poverty & bring more people into the labor force brookings.edu/articles/do-wa…

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Matthew Staiger @MatthewStaiger

4 months ago

I'm excited to help organize @OppInsights' 2025 Conference on Economic Mobility (Oct 9-10)! Submit your papers by August 1st here: opportunityinsights.org/updates/2025-c…. Looking forward to reading your submissions! #EconTwitter

Opportunity Insights @OppInsights

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Economics LMU Munich @ECONMunich

5 months ago

🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on May 5 at 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 with @_Hector_Blanco (@RutgersU ), who will present "Local Effects of Bypassing Zoning Regulations" 🔗 hector-blanco.github.io 📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… #ECONM

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Burhan Azeem, Cambridge City Councillor @realBurhanAzeem

8 months ago

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

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Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf

8 months ago

A few months ago, a state policymaker said, "Hey Elmendorf, if you were writing a fair-share housing law on a clean slate, how would you do it?" So I wrote a memo. @salimfurth liked, and now it belongs to the world. ⤵️ 🧵 1/5

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Jay Parsons @jayparsons

9 months ago

Voucher holders are often required to wait out bureaucratic box checking before they can move into a rental. Meanwhile, the unit just sits vacant. Lose/lose. Non-voucher holders just sign a lease and move in. Easy compromise: End discrimination against voucher holders by…