Contact Information

U of M Department of Economics
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Tel: (734) 763-9619
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albouy@umich.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Quality of Life, Firm Productivity, and the Value of Amenities across Canadian Cities. (with Fernando Leibovici and Casey Warman) Canadian Journal of Economics, 46(2), May 2013. Coverage in The Provence and Victoria Times-Colonist.

• Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds. Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(1), March 2013, pp. 127-141.

• The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment. American Economic Review, 102(6), October 2012, pp. 3059-3076. Data in ASCII. , STATA. Appendix .
• Evaluating the Efficiency and Equity of Federal Fiscal Equalization. Journal of Public Economics 96(9-10), October 2012, pp. 824-839.

• Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? A New Perspective, with Evidence from the U.S. Senate. Electoral Studies 30(1), March 2011, pp. 162-173.

• The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation . Journal of Political Economy 117(4), August 2009, pp. 635-667. Coverage in the New York Times, NBER Digest and by Fox Business. Longer NBER Working Paper.

• 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

• Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas. Revision requested at the Journal of Political Economy.

• What are Cities Worth? Land Rents, Local Productivity, and the Value of Amenities. Revision requested at the Review of Economics and Statistics. Coverage in US News and World Report and The Atlantic. Click here for a full list.

• Driving to Opportunity: Local Wages, Commuting, and Sub-Metropolitan Quality of Life. (with Bert Lue) Revision requested at the Journal of Urban Economics

• Extreme Temperature, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life. (with Walter Graf, Hendrik Wolff, and Ryan Kellogg)

• Metropolitan Land Values and Housing Productivity. (with Gabriel Ehrlich) Coverage in the Economist Blog

• Urban Population and Amenities. (with Bryan Stuart)

Other Publications

• Taxes, Housing Benefits and Inefficiencies in Location and Consumption. (with Andrew Hanson) Accepted for the NBER's Tax Policy and the Economy, 2013.

• Book review of Lectures on Urban Economics, by Jan K. Brueckner Journal of Regional Science, 2012, pp. 510-512.

• Does New York Pay Too Much in Federal Taxes Relative to Columbus? Proceedings of the National Tax Association 100th Annual Conference on Taxation, 2008, pp. 245-249.

Teaching

• ECON 481: Government Expenditures
• ECON 487: Urban Economics
• ECON 495: Seminar in Economics: Economic Inequality
• ECON 684: Government Revenues - first half.

Awards

• 2012 Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize.
• 2008 Robert Mundell Prize.
• 2008 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award.
• 2008 AREUEA Dissertation Award.
• 2007 NTA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Prize.

Miscellania

• Amazon Lists: Favorite Economics & Econometrics Textbooks and Classics in Economic Thought.