Still, Canadian policymakers have for decades pushed for our big cities to become even bigger, denser, wealthier and more ...

As faculty push for greater input in Harvard’s governance, some professors say the president’s absence has left the current ...

Edward Glaeser of Harvard University points out that Messrs Turner and Weil presume innovation becomes harder over time, as the easy wins are taken, meaning big cities gain less than they would ...

"If there's one thing we've known since the time of Adam Smith, but even more so since the time of Henry Ford, it's that mass production—repetition—makes things cheap," said Edward Glaeser ...

October 29, 2020, Audio: "Does Zoom mean we all work from home? Will cities bounce back? Will San Francisco and New York fade and smaller cities grow? What problems are the policies causing and can ...

December 19, 2020, Video: "A dynamic and wide-ranging conversation with Harvard economist Edward Glaeser on navigating the covid recession and laying the groundwork for growth and resilience.

June 2020, Paper, "How quickly will American businesses reopen after COVID-19 lockdowns end? We use a nationwide survey of small businesses to measure firms’ expectations about their re-opening and ...

January 4, 2022, Paper: "Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the ‘experienced isolation’ methodology of Athey et al. (2021), we ...

September 25, 2021, Opinion: "On Sept. 9, Microsoft canceled its plans for a back-to-the-office target date of Oct. 4 and said it would no longer forecast when it would fully reopen its U.S. work ...

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then ...

Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, grilled President Donald Trump's DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard over her previous remarks praising whistleblower Edward Snowden.