Jordan Rappaport
Senior Economist
Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
925 Grand Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64198
Email: jordan.rappaport@kc.frb.org

Curriculum vitae (PDF 16KB)

Research Working Papers

Publications in journals and books

Other publications / related work
Economic Review articles  

Publications in professional journals and books

"Consumption Amenities and City Population Density," Regional Science and Urban Economics, forthcoming.

"A Productivity Model of City Crowdedness," Journal of Urban Economics, March 2008.

"Why Do the Poor Live in Cities: The Role of Public Transportation" with Edward Glaeser  and Matthew Kahn, Journal of Urban Economics, January 2008.

"Comparing Aggregate Housing Price Measures," Business Economics, October 2007.

"Moving to Nice Weather," Regional Science and Urban Economics, May 2007.

Supplemental Tables     (PDF 76.6K)
Supplemental Maps      (PDF 2.14MB)

"A Bottleneck Capital Model of Economic Development," Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2006.

Supplemental Tables (PDF 427K)

"How Does Labor Mobility Affect Income Convergence?" Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, March 2005. 

"Why are Population Flows So Persistent?" Journal of Urban Economics, November 2004. 

Supplemental Tables and Figures (PDF 813K)

"The United States as a Coastal Nation," with Jeffrey Sachs, Journal of Economic Growth, March 2003.

Supplemental Tables, Figures, and Maps     (PDF 961K)
Color Versions of Maps     (PDF 2.02MB)
Coastal Proximity Varibles     (ZIPPED STATA 7 DATASET, 769K)
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Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review articles

"A Guide to Aggregate House Price Measures," Second Quarter 2007.    (Summary | Article  PDF 167K) 

"The Shared Fortunes of Cities and Suburbs,"  (Data, Excel 235K)  Third Quarter 2005. (Summary | Article PDF 181K)

"U.S. Urban Decline and Growth, 1950 to 2000," Third Quarter 2003.   (Summary | Article PDF 313K)

"What Are the Benefits of Hosting a Major League Sports Franchise?" with Chad Wilkerson, First Quarter 2001.   (Summary | Article PDF 207K)

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Research Working Papers

"Moving to High Quality of Life," RWP 07-02  (PDF 584K | Abstract)

"Consumption Amenities and City Population Density," (Previously titled "Consumption Amenities and City Crowdedness") RWP 06-10  (PDF 684K | Abstract)

"A Productivity Model of City Crowdedness," RWP 06-06   (PDF 1.17MB | Abstract)

"How Does Openness to Capital Flows Affect Growth?" RWP 00-11   (PDF 649K | Abstract)

"Is the Speed of Convergence Constant?" RWP 00-10   (PDF 748K | Abstract)

Other Working Papers

"Local Growth Empirics," Center for International Development at Harvard University Working Paper No. 23, July 1999.  (Abstract | PDF 1.45MB)

"Extremist Funding, Centrist Voters, and Candidate Divergence," Santa Fe Institute Working Paper No. 97-06-059E, June 1997. 

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