David Yves Albouy

About

David Yves Albouy is a professor in the Department of Economics at Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. His research examines how federal tax burdens and spending, as well as public goods, are distributed geographically. He also studies local differences in pay, productivity, housing costs, and quality of life. Albouy holds a B.A. in Education History, Philosophy, and Economics from McGill University, an M.A. in Economics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. His work has contributed to understanding the spatial distribution of economic resources and amenities, and he has published extensively on topics related to land valuation, public infrastructure, amenities, and urban economics.

Research topics

• Economics
• Finance
• Microeconomics
• Economic growth
• Public economics
• Econometrics
• Business
• Geography

Selected publications

• Unlocking amenities: Estimating public good complementarity

  Journal of Public Economics · 2020 · 45 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Immigration and the pursuit of amenities

  Journal of Regional Science · 2019-11-23 · 35 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract Immigrants to the United States live disproportionately in metropolitan areas where nominal wages are high, but real wages are low. This sorting behavior may be due to preferences toward certain quality‐of‐life amenities. Relative to U.S.‐born inter‐state migrants, immigrants accept lower real wages to locate in cities that are coastal, larger, and offer deeper immigrant networks. They sort toward cities that are hillier and also larger and networked. Immigrants come more from coastal,…

  PublisherDOI

• The Value of Rural and Urban Public Infrastructure

  Economic Development Quarterly · 2022 · 4 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  The authors estimate the value of public infrastructure using a panel of rural and urban counties in the United States from 1970 to 2012. Regression estimates imply public infrastructure increases employment more in urban counties, while improving property values more in rural ones; positive effects on income are similar. Spatial equilibrium modeling suggests public capital has similar quality-of-life and productivity benefits in urban and rural areas but does more to reduce costs of providing h…

  PublisherDOI

• Local Labor Markets in Canada and the United States

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2021-02-28 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  We examine local labor markets in the United States and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit less in Canada.

  OA PDFDOI

• Skills, Migration and Urban Amenities Over the Life Cycle

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

Recent grants

• Quality of Life, Productivity, and the Value of Amenities across Cities: Theory and Applications

  NSF · $267k · 2009–2013

Frequent coauthors

• Gabriel Ehrlich

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  109 shared

• Casey Warman

  87 shared

• Bryan A. Stuart

  Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

  86 shared

• Fernando Leibovici

  83 shared

• Minchul Shin

  Korea Institute of Toxicology

  44 shared

• Minchul Shin

  43 shared

• Kristian Behrens

  Université du Québec à Montréal

  32 shared

• Frédéric Robert‐Nicoud

  31 shared

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