Greg Howard

A new tractable model with persistent, spatially correlated utility explains a new fact about how migration evolves over time, with implications for dynamics and welfare. New paper by @greg_l_howard & Shao: restud.com/the-dynamics-o… #REStud #EconX #EconTwitter

Today is the submission deadline for the Urban Economics Association meeting in Chicago, September 25-26. Please send your best urban-related work for our program committee to consider. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea20… @UrbanEconomics

Thrilled to have this paper with Hansen Shao, "The Dynamics of Internal Migration: A New Fact and its Implications" accepted. We hope it changes the way you think about internal migration and that it provides a useful tool for economists to model location choices.

🚀📣 Join us for the next 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐔𝐄𝐀 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 on Wed, May 13 at 9 AM EST, where Vinicios Sant’Anna (California Poly) will present Immigrants and Native Flight: Geographic Extent and Heterogeneous Preferences 📌🗓️ Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Congratulations to Ludwig Straub (@ludwigstraub) of @Harvard, winner of the 2026 John Bates Clark Medal! aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…

The gap in incomes between rich and poor places stayed historically high in 2024. (Based on new @BEA_News local personal income data for 2024.)

I highly recommend the JEP Symposium on housing markets. Great papers on regional & aggregate prices; low-end spillovers of building at high-end; why people don’t understand housing supply & demand; construction costs; evidence from other countries. aeaweb.org/issues/814

We are delighted to announce that our postdoc, Vinicios Sant'Anna @vpsantanna, is on the job market. His #EconJMP (with @diogobaerlocher & @CortesGustavoS) studies the impact of migrants displaced by natural disasters on housing markets. Link: ssrn.com/abstract=50252…

A regional university insulates the local economy from negative shocks like manufacturing decline. In the July issue, Greg Howard (@greg_l_howard), Russell Weinstein, and Yuhao Yang zurl.co/aPSJ

@AlexUsherHESA @JoshGoodman_BU @restatjournal I wish I could tell you! What we did find is that a significant chunk of the resilience offered by universities comes from the resilience of the university itself (in terms of both finances and enrollment), but that's only a partial answer.

@greg_l_howard @JoshGoodman_BU @restatjournal Interesting, thanks What piques my curiosity is whether universities are better for local economies than other sorts of public investments. If you were a small community and you could choose a $50M investment in a hospital vs. a uni, which should you pick? Or does it matter?

Our latest working paper on immigration and native flight is out at the MIT Center for Real Estate Research Paper series. 👇

Free to read for a limited time! "A Check for Rational Inattention" by @greg_l_howard at journals.uchicago.edu/stoken/default…. Read more JPE Micro content at tinyurl.com/bd4phk99. For full access, check with your library or subscribe at 20% off with code JPE20. #EconTwitter

@ludwigstraub @SloanFoundation Congrats!

So happy and honored to be among this year's @SloanFoundation Research Fellows! Thank you to my wonderful collaborators, colleagues, and mentors!

@ErnestLiuEcon @david_yang @nityanayar @MukhinDA Congratulations!

Extremely honored to receive this award, and congratulations to the other recipients @david_yang @nityanayar @MukhinDA !

Thanks to everyone that gave great suggestions as I've been writing the paper. Additional feedback is welcome! Link to the paper: glhoward.github.io/greghoward.org…

Third, while short-run migration elasticities are comparable to existing models, the long-run elasticities are completely different. (In this new version, we provide a trick for people who love the tractability of moving cost models to still get the elasticities right)

Updated one of my papers (with Hansen Shao) and gave it a new name: "The Dynamics of Internal Migration: A New Fact and its Implications"