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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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Here’s The Best Place To Move If You’re Worried About Climate Change
Matthew Kahn has dreamed about buying a climate change retreat. If anybody would know where to go, you’d think it would be an environmental economist who literally wrote the book on which cities will adapt to a warming world and how they’ll do it. But rather than investing in land that’s safe from the risks of coastal…
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Medicine for the Greater Good with Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos
Matthew Kahn invites Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos to discuss his initiative Medicine for the Greater Good which seeks to forge better connections between medical health professionals and the communities they serve by understanding the diverse needs of patients and socioeconomic barriers to health care access.
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21st Century Cities Initiative Brings Harvard Analyst Thomas Abt to Baltimore
Thomas Abt, senior researcher at the Center for International Development, presented the findings of his book Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence — and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets at the Bloomberg School of Public Health on Tuesday.
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21st Century Cities Initiative Hires New Director Matthew Kahn
The 21st Century Cities (21CC) Initiative, an on-campus center for students and faculty interested in using data to solve modern urban challenges, hired Matthew Kahn as its new director in June. In an interview with The News-Letter, the noted urban and environmental economist reflected on his life, career and goals for 21CC.
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Accurate Census Count Critical for Baltimore Kids
With the 2020 census looming, how the city counts Baltimore’s children will be critical to how well we’re able to take care of them.
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2019 Urban Spaces Symposium
On August 27, 21CC and IDIES hosted The Johns Hopkins University 2019 Urban Spaces Symposium, Urban Spaces in Baltimore: Data Science in the City. The symposium established what makes a good research question and how city officials can best use research to advance their goals and initiatives, identify current projects in progress/discussion, and create opportunities…
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How the Economy, Energy, and Tech Show Up in “Mad Max”
Marketplace’s” Jed Kim spoke with Matthew Kahn, an economist at Johns Hopkins University, about the energy technology and economics on display in “Mad Max.” He said that for him, the movie shows how free markets falter in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Climate Change Could Cost the U.S. 10.5% of Its GDP by 2100, Study Warns
Plastic pollution found in the world’s oceans and the melting permafrost in the Arctic could have startling economic burdens, perhaps as much as $2.5 trillion and $70 trillion, respectively. And while there may have been some hope that certain countries could escape the brunt of the impact, a new study suggests that “virtually all” nations…
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Heat and Crime on Vox’s The Weeds
21CC Director Matthew Kahn’s new research on the relationship between heat and crime is discussed on Vox’s podcast The Weeds.
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Baltimore Area Needs a Regional Economic Development Strategy
In the last five to 10 years, it would seem as though Baltimore is finally emerging (at least economically) — from its slow, multi-decade decline. But if you’re a resident of one of the city’s poorer neighborhoods, you might not know it.
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Matthew Kahn to Give Keynote at 6th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference
21CC Director Matthew Kahn will give a keynote at the 6th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference at the World Bank in DC on September 9, 2019. Professor Kahn will discuss “People, Accessibility and Social Outcomes in Cities.”
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Matthew Kahn to Speak at the 63rd Economic Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
21CC Director Matthew Kahn will speak at the 63rd Economic Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, A House Divided: Geographic Disparities in Twenty-First Century America on October 4-5, 2019 at the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston. Professor Kahn will speak on a panel titled “Alternative Approaches to Measuring the Quality of Life.”
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Bleeding Out
The 21st Century Cities Initiative and the Urban Health Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome Thomas Abt for a discussion of his new book Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence – and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets on September 10 from 5:30-7pm in Sheldon Hall (W1214) 615 N. Wolfe Street in…
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