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Matthew Kahn Discusses Climate Change and Increasing Crime Rates
21CC Director Matthew Kahn discusses the relationship between rising global temperatures and crime rates.
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Matthew Kahn Speaks at the 8th Annual Municipal Finance Conference
21CC Director Matthew Kahn presented at the 8th annual Municipal Finance Conference at the Brookings Institution on July 15, 2019 about municipal finance and climate change adaptation.
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Matthew Kahn’s July 8th 2019 Talk at the International Monetary Fund on the Microeconomics of Climate Change Adaptation
21CC Director Matthew Kahn spoke at the International Monetary Fund on July 8th, 2019 about the critical role of markets in adapting to climate change.
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Urban Economist Matthew Kahn to Lead Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative
Matthew E. Kahn will serve as the new director of 21st Century Cities, the university’s hub for urban research, education, and outreach. “Dr. Kahn’s prolific research on urban and environmental challenges has established him as one of the leading economists in the world,” says Sunil Kumar, JHU provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.
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Heat Waves Precipitate More Crime in Poor Areas, Study in L.A. Finds
Police Departments have long been aware of the correlation between heatwaves and higher crime, but new data measures how poor neighborhoods suffer far more than richer areas. The study by two researchers at the University of Southern California found that on average, overall crime increases by 2.2% and violent crime by 5.7% on days when…
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Higher Temperatures Can Lead to More Violent Crime, Especially in Poorer Neighborhoods
A new study by 21CC’s Matthew E. Kahn analyzed data from the Los Angeles Police Department.
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The Local Impact of Bank Mergers on Small Business Lending: A Baltimore Example
The relocation of BB&T’s and SunTrust Bank’s headquarters from Winston-Salem and Atlanta to Charlotte will undoubtedly have an effect on those markets, but how will the other 78 markets where the banks have overlapping branch operations fare?
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21CC Funds 15 New Urban Research Projects Both Local and Global
Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative, a hub for urban research, recently awarded 15 seed grants to faculty and doctoral researchers pursuing projects in Baltimore and beyond. Seven JHU faculty-led studies—including projects pertaining to female entrepreneurship, the effect of urban green spaces on environmental quality, and the impact of the federal Opportunity Zones program…
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As Hopkins Expands into D.C., What Does That Mean for Baltimore?
Last Friday, many of us received an email that Hopkins had purchased the building that currently houses the Newseum, a museum in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to promoting freedom of speech… To be sure, the University has made some substantial efforts to give back to Baltimore.
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Balancing the Scales of Investment in Baltimore
Like a lot of American cities, contemporary Baltimore has two types of neighborhoods: Those few areas in and around downtown, where capital is relatively easy to access, and the more common outlying neighborhoods, often historically disinvested and constrained by legacy policies like redlining, where capital is scarce and lending for small businesses is relatively difficult.
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Reinventing the Public Mission of Higher Education
The 2018 HER will open an international dialogue on Reinventing the Public Mission of Higher Education: Policies and Practice. The goal is to provide a platform for researchers, senior higher education policymakers, and higher education leaders who seek to expand engagement in this question and to explore and promote new solutions at local, national and international levels…
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Investing In Opportunity: Addressing the Root Causes of Civil Unrest in Baltimore
April 2015 will forever be viewed as a turning point in Baltimore’s history. That month, a young Baltimorean named Freddie Gray died of spinal injuries while in police custody after being arrested near his West Baltimore home for allegedly possessing an illegal knife.
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Financing Baltimore’s Growth: Venture Capital Support for Small Companies
In 2017, the Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative documented financial flows to small companies located in the City of Baltimore, considering both working capital and venture capital. The purpose was to measure the capacity of the city to support economic development, specifically with regard to the contribution that small companies can make towards job…
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Strengthening Access to Capital for Minority-Owned Small Businesses
On Friday, September 14, 2018, the United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship held a field hearing at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland to discuss strengthening access to capital for minority-owned small businesses. Mary Miller, Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative, provided testimony on Baltimore’s financing system, presenting findings…
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2018 21st Century Neighborhoods Symposium: Reinventing Our Communities
The 21st Century Cities Initiative (21CC) at Johns Hopkins University is pleased to announce that the 2018 edition of our Symposium—21st Century Neighborhoods: Research. Leadership. Transformation.—will be incorporated into the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s 2018 Reinventing Our Communities: Investing in Opportunity Conference to be held at the Hilton Baltimore on October 1-3, 2018.
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