Regional Development

Flood Insurance in a World with Rising Seas

By Agustin Indaco, Francesc Ortega and Suleyman Taspinar·October 15, 2018
Queens College, City University of New York

The Issue:

Flooding is a major cause of damage and property loss to homeowners in the wake of hurricanes. Even absent major weather events, flooding has become an issue for coastal communities like Miami Beach, where rising sea levels and decades of development — combined with local characteristics — have been ...
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Learning from Hurricane Sandy? Rising Seas and Housing Values in New York

By Francesc Ortega and Suleyman Taspinar·May 2, 2018
Queens College, City University of New York

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The Issue:

The chance of large-scale coastal flooding episodes is increasing. In the last few decades, sea levels have been rising steadily at about 3 centimeters per decade and many estimates expect that this rate will accelerate going forward. At the same time, the ...
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Do Place-Based Policies Work?

By David Neumark·November 28, 2017
University of California, Irvine

The Issue:

People’s economic fortunes are often tied to where they live. This is clearly true at the international level, with people in rich countries enjoying incomes twice or more that of people in middle income countries. But this is also true within countries, with persistent low levels of income in cities ...
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The Geography of Need and the Proposed Foxconn Deal in Wisconsin

By John C. Brown·August 28, 2017
Clark University

The Issue:

The decline of manufacturing employment has reduced the availability of higher paying jobs for less educated workers. One approach states and localities have used to address the issue is by trying to attract and retain firms with packages of subsidies and tax incentives, such as the proposed high-profile ...
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