Contact Information
Department of Economics
611 Tappan St
351C Lorch Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Tel: (734) 763-9619
Fax: (734) 764-2769
albouy@umich.edu
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation.
Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming August 2009.
Coverage in the NBER Digest and by Fox Business. Data and dofiles.- The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970-2000.
Canadian Journal of Economics 41 (4), November 2008, pp. 1211-1238. Appendix. Coverage in the Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Citizen.
Working Papers
- The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data.
3rd revision requested at the American Economic Review. Data in ASCII, STATA.- Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds.
Revision requested at The Review of Economics and Statistics- What are Cities Worth? Land Rents, Local Productivity, and the Value of Amenities.
Coverage in US News and World Report. Click here for a full list.- Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-life Estimates across Cities.
- Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? A New Perspective with Evidence from the U.S. Senate.
Other Papers
- Does New York Pay Too Much in Federal Taxes Relative to Columbus?
Proceedings of the National Tax Association 100th Annual Conference on Taxation, 2008, 245-249.
Teaching
- ECON 481: Government Expenditures
- ECON 487: Urban Economics
- ECON 684: Government Revenues - first half.
Awards
Other Stuff
- Amazon Lists: Favorite Economics & Econometrics Textbooks and Classics in Economic Thought.
