Research

(Google Scholar Profile)

Publications

• Oliva, Jack, Bell, Severen, and Mettetal. Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty: Take-Up and Subsequent Investment in Zambia. Accepted at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
  • Older version - NBER Working Paper 21414.
• Severen and Plantinga. (2018). Land-Use Regulations, Property Values, and Rents: Decomposing the Effects of the California Coastal Act. Journal of Urban Economics 107, 65-78.
  • [UCSB press coverage].
• Severen, Costello, and Deschênes. (2018). A forward-looking Ricardian approach: Do land markets capitalize climate change forecasts? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 89, 235-254.

Working Papers

• Severen. (2019). Commuting, Labor, and Housing Market Effects of Mass Transportation: Welfare and Identification.
  • NEW January 2019 draft and slides
  • Lots of new stuff, including assessments of some common methods and assumptions in quantitative urban economic geography.

Works in Progress

• “Formative Experiences and the Price of Gasoline” (with Arthur van Benthem).

• “Driving and Dropouts: The Effect of Graduated Driver’s Licenses on High School Drop Out Rates” (with Valerie Bostwick).