The research listed here is in various stages of drafting and is still subject to change:
Parking Minimums and Spatial Productivity
Author: Aaron Morton
Topic: Exploring the effects of parking minimums and repeall thereof on the spatial distribution of households and productivity in San Francisco and Surrounding Bay Area. Using a mix of reduced form and structural methods the effects of parking minimum reforms, if any, are assesed and a measurement of the oveall change in distribution of porudcitivty is provided.
Food Deserts: A Spatial Equilibrium Approach
Authors: Aaron Morton
Topic: Using common methodologies in the area of Quantitative Spatial Modeling, a spatial equilibrium model is being developed to analyze the underlying causes of food deserts and the use of these results to understand what policies may best aid food insecurity
Housing and Neighborhood Quality Trade-off
Authors: Aaron Morton, Stuart Rosenthal, Alexander Rothenberg, Samuel Saltmarsh
Topic: How households across differing incomes trade-off between housing quality and neighborhood
quality by estimating the marginal rate of substitution between both. My contribution has been focused on developing code to estimate pricing hedonics and marginal willingness to pay using local nonlinear least squares and the strategy developed by Bishop and Timmins (2019).
Housing Space Constraints and Spatial Equilibrium
Authors: Aaron Morton
Topic: By developing a spatial equilibrium model, household housing size preferences and regulatory
housing space minimums are considered in how they restrict household choices and location choice
affordability.
