Regional and Urban Economics, Policy and Governance

The 2023 Roundtable Wrap-Up. What Are the Important Take-Aways?

The Pew Charitable Trusts

2023

In this summary Jim Landers shares the highlights from the ninth annual Roundtable on Evaluating Economic Development Tax Incentives event, held in 2023. In addition to data source and evaluation techniques, Landers features presentations on second-time evaluation strategies.

In With the New: Reflections on and Key Takeaways From the 2024 Roundtable

The Pew Charitable Trusts

2024

In this summary Jim Landers shares highlights from the 2024 NCSL Roundtable on Evaluating Economic Development Tax Incentives. In addition to highlighting sessions on artificial intelligence in evaluation and thinking beyond economic indicators, Landers features a discussion on the synthetic control method.

Forecasting the Fiscal Impacts of Tax Incentive Programs: Unraveling the Revenue Puzzle

The Pew Charitable Trusts

2024

In this column Jim Landers discusses the complexities and challenges of estimating the fiscal impacts of tax incentive programs.

Evaluating Discretionary and Nondiscretionary Incentives

The Pew Charitable Trusts

2024

In this column Jim Landers examines the differences between discretionary and nondiscretionary incentives and the implications of these differences for evaluators.

Housing Policy Debate

2025

In this article, Dr. Stephanie Moulton and a team of housing policy experts draw from recent research to propose changes to the housing finance system that would improve access to mortgages while enabling homeownership stability for low wealth households in the U.S.

Labor outcomes of mortgage payment subsidies for unemployed homeowners

Journal of Housing Economics

2025

Stephanie Moulton's paper provides novel evidence that stabilizing housing during an unemployment shock leads to better employment outcomes over the long term.

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

2024

Stephanie Moulton examines the extent to which older adults use home equity to help manage the costs associated with a chronic disease in older age and how such borrowing can affect their ability to manage the disease.

Polluting under the Radar: Emissions, Inequality, and Concrete Batch Plants in Houston

Environmental Science & Technology

2023

Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues show that concrete batch plants in Houston, TX are collectively a large source of pollution, emitting between 38 and 111 tons of primary PM2.5 emissions annually and being disproportionately located in census tracts with more low-income, Hispanic, and Black populations.

Ashley Orr

Shoshanah Inwood