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JHU Study Reviews Baltimore Police Officer Pay
A new report shows a Baltimore police officer’s median pay is as high as that of a New York City police officer thanks in large part to overtime pay. The report completed by the 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University was sparked, its authors said, by a story about who leads the list of highest-paid…
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Rhiannon Jerch: Workshop on Social Policy and Inequality
Rhiannon Jerch is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. Rhiannon will be discussing her most recent paper “The Local Consequences of Federal Mandates: Evidence from the Clean Water Act”.
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21st Century Cities Initiative Hosts Discussion on School Integration in Baltimore
Rucker Johnson, the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, discussed his new book Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works on Friday. Brandon Scott, Baltimore City Council president; Cristina Evans, chair of the Teacher Chapter of the Baltimore Teachers Union Executive Board; and Eric Rice, assistant clinical professor at the School of Education, served…
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Rucker Johnson: Children of the Dream Book Talk
Rucker C Johnson, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, gave a talk about his new book, Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works in the Mason Hall auditorium on the Hopkins Homewood campus on Friday, October 18, 2019.
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Passion to Action: Three Approaches to Tackling Climate Change
Please join 21st Century Cities, Centers for Civic Impact, and the SNF Agora Institute as we discuss our varying approaches to tackling urgent public policy challenges. The evening’s discussion will focus on climate change, which is a complex policy issue that must be addressed using multiple approaches, including scientific big data analysis, identification of unintended…
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A House Divided: Geographic Disparities in Twenty-First Century America
1CC Director Matthew Kahn will speak at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s 63rd Economic Conference on October 5, A House Divided: Geographic Disparities in Twenty-First Century America about Alternative Approaches to Measuring the Quality of Life.
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When Climate Change Leads to Mortgage Defaults
Climate change poses risks to real estate that homebuyers may not be able to predict. As sea level rises, coastal properties, for example, may be subject to increased flooding and intensifying storm surges. First-time homebuyers often lack the expertise to evaluate these new risks, and thus tend to underestimate them and overpay for increasingly exposed…
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Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum: The Urban Climate Change Resilience Challenge
21CC Director Matthew Kahn will give the Henry Hart Rice talk at NYU on October 2, titled The Urban Climate Change Resilience Challenge.
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U.S. Taxpayers Are at Risk for Homes Threatened by Climate Change
Banks are selling mortgages on homes in coastal areas around the U.S. that are vulnerable to natural disasters to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a study finds. That could leave taxpayers footing the bill because the two government-sponsored enterprises buy the mortgages without adequately accounting for the heightened property risks.
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Climate Change Could Impact Your Mortgage Even If You Live Nowhere Near a Coast
Some banks are cutting their own climate-change exposure by selling riskier disaster-area mortgages to taxpayer-supported entities. That puts the health of the mortgage market at risk, a potential repeat of the financial conditions at the root of the banking crisis a decade ago, a research paper published Monday argues.
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Mortgage Lenders Are Shifting Climate Risks Onto Taxpayers, Study Finds
Mr. Ouazad, along with his co-author Matthew Kahn, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, examined the behavior of mortgage lenders in areas hit by hurricanes between 2004 and 2012, each of which caused at least $1 billion in damages. They found that, after those hurricanes, lenders increased by almost 10 percent the share of those mortgages…
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Caught Stealing?
The 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins is hosting Brad Humphreys, Professor of Economics at WVU to give a talk titled “Caught Stealing? The pros and cons of subsidies for professional sports facilities and their impact on cities” on Thursday, October 10 in the Mason Hall Auditorium on the Homewood Campus from 6:30-8pm.
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Urban Policy and Pizza
The 21st Century Cities Initiative (21CC) hosts regular Urban Policy and Pizza events for Hopkins undergraduates that give students a chance to learn about the newest academic literature on urban topics and discuss new and innovative policy proposals in Baltimore City and around the world.
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Radio Health Journal: Heat and Violence
Violence increases as temperatures rise in the summer, but are higher temperatures a cause of aggression? New research shows that the answer is yes, especially in family conflict, and that poor neighborhoods bear the brunt of the relationship.
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Humanity Will Find Ways to Adapt to Climate Change
As demand rises for ways to ease the pain of climate change, supply will respond. A growing market for goods prompts producers to innovate—and work by Matthew Kahn of Johns Hopkins University and Daxuan Zhao of Renmin University suggests that the same logic applies to adaptation. Firms researching zero-emission energy and carbon sequestration hope to…
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