Justin Gallagher

Datos Biográficos

ID9080644
NOMBREJustin Gallagher
NOMBRESJustin
APELLIDOGallagher
FIRMAGALLAGHER J
AFILIACIONESCase Western Reserve University
ORCID0000-0002-3341-175X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS2
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR2
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2014
ÍNDICE H0

  • Learning about an Infrequent Event

    Justin GallagherARTICLEAmerican Economic Journal Applied…2014

    I examine the learning process that economic agents use to update their expectation of an uncertain and infrequently observed event. I use a new nation-wide panel dataset of large regional floods and flood insurance policies to show that insurance take-up spikes the year after a flood and then steadily declines to baseline. Residents in nonflooded communities in the same television media market increase take-up at one-third the rate of flooded co…

  • Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program

    Madison Greenstone, Michael Greenstone et al.ARTICLEThe Quarterly Journal of Economics2008

    This paper uses the housing market to develop estimates of the local welfare impacts of Superfund-sponsored cleanups of hazardous waste sites. We show that if consumers value the cleanups, then the hedonic model predicts that they will lead to increases in local housing prices and new home construction, as well as the migration of individuals that place a high value on environmental quality to the areas near the improved sites. We compare housing…