Fernando V. Ferreira

 

Assistant Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Real Estate Department

 

Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

      

 

Curriculum Vitae

      

 

Applied Economics Seminar

 

      

 

Papers

 

The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design, with Jesse Rothstein and Stephanie Cellini. Forthcoming, The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

 

Housing Busts and Household Mobility, with Joseph Gyourko and Joseph Tracy. Forthcoming, Journal of Urban Economics.

 

Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities, with Joseph Gyourko. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2009, vol. 124(1), p. 349-397.

 

"A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods", with Patrick Bayer and Robert McMillan. Journal of Political Economy, August 2007, vol. 115(4), p. 588-638.

 

"You Can Take It with You: Proposition 13 Tax Benefits, Residential Mobility, and Willingness to Pay for Housing Amenities."  Revise and resubmit, Journal of Public Economics.

 

“Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?”, with Carlos Dobkin. Forthcoming, Economics of Education Review.

 

“Tiebout Sorting, Social Multipliers, and the Demand for School Quality” , with Patrick Bayer and Robert McMillan. NBER Working Paper #10871, November 2004.

 

      

 

Work in Progress

 

Inequality and Local Finances in the United States, 1906-2006 (with Leah Platt Boustan).

 

Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors (with Joseph Gyourko).

 

Local Political Competition: Does Competition Matter for Land Markets and Public Policy? (with Joseph Gyourko).

 

Pop Internationalism: Globalization of the Music Industry, 1960-2008 (with Joel Waldfogel)

 

The Importance of Being “Ernesto”: Do Hispanics Affect the Housing Market? (with Albert Saiz).

 

Racial Discrimination in the Housing Market (with Patrick Bayer and Robert McMillan).

 

Assessing Racial, Ethnic, and Neighborhood Differences in Loan Pricing and Performance (with Patrick Bayer and Stephen Ross)

 

      

 

Contact

 

1461 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall

3620 Locust Walk

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6302

Phone: (215) 898-7181

Fax: (215) 573-2220

Email: fferreir@wharton.upenn.edu