Marlon Boarnet

· Professor

University of Southern California · Public Policy

Active 1987–2026

h-index48

Citations10.5k

Papers23625 last 5y

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About

Marlon Boarnet is a faculty member at USC Price with a focus on public policy, urban planning, and real estate development. His work encompasses research in areas such as economic development, environment, governance, housing, security, nonprofit management, and transportation. Boarnet contributes to the academic community through his involvement in research centers including the Center for Sustainable Solutions, the Center for Health Financing, Policy and Management, and the Lusk Center for Real Estate, among others. His expertise supports the development of policies and strategies aimed at improving urban environments and public welfare, and he is actively engaged in teaching and mentoring students in these fields.

Research topics

Economics
Demographic economics
Business
Engineering
Political Science
Computer Science
Mathematics
Statistics
Physics
Econometrics

Selected publications

Do high income households reduce driving more when living near rail transit?
Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · 2020 · 22 citations
1st authorCorresponding
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A two-dimensional propensity score matching method for longitudinal quasi-experimental studies: A focus on travel behavior and the built environment
Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science · 2020 · 18 citations
Senior authorCorresponding
The lack of longitudinal studies of the relationship between the built environment and travel behavior has been widely discussed in the literature. This paper discusses how standard propensity score matching estimators can be extended to enable such studies by pairing observations across two dimensions: longitudinal and cross-sectional. Researchers mimic randomized controlled trials and match observations in both dimensions to find synthetic control groups that are similar to the treatment group…
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Measuring the impact of COVID-19 policies on local commute traffic: Evidence from mobile data in Northern California
Travel Behaviour and Society · 2023 · 8 citations
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Monetary cost, time cost, and mode choice: Transit and ridehailing in California
Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · 2024-03-22 · 5 citations
article1st authorCorresponding
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Effects of new transit lines on commuting: Evidence from restricted-use Census Bureau microdata
Applied Geography · 2024-01-13 · 5 citations
articleSenior author
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Frequent coauthors

Kristen Day
21 shared
Mariela Alfonzo
19 shared
Randall Crane
17 shared
Seva Rodnyansky
Occidental College
16 shared
Douglas Houston
15 shared
Raphael W. Bostic
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
12 shared
Wei Li
12 shared
Craig L. Anderson
HEC Paris
12 shared

Education

Ph.D., Urban Planning
University of California, Los Angeles
1995
M.A., Urban Planning
University of California, Los Angeles
1992
B.A., Urban Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
1989

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