30 Facts About Edward Glaeser

Edward Ludwig Glaeser was born on May 1,1967 and is an American economist who is currently the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he is the Chairman of the Department of Economics.

Edward Glaeser directs the Cities Research Programme at the International Growth Centre.

Edward Glaeser has served as the director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and as the director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

Edward Glaeser is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor at City Journal.

Edward Glaeser has been a faculty research fellow at the NBER since 1993, and was an editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics from 1998 to 2008.

Edward Glaeser was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2005, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Edward Glaeser's father was born in Berlin in 1930, lived in Berlin during World War II and moved to West Berlin in the 1950s.

Ludwig Edward Glaeser received a degree in architecture from the Darmstadt University of Technology, and a PhD in art history from the Free University of Berlin, before joining the staff of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1963.

Edward Glaeser would go on to become Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design in 1969.

Edward Glaeser described how his father supported new construction and change if it met aesthetic standards.

Edward Glaeser's work argues against local anti-density zoning laws and federal government policies that encourage sprawl, such as the mortgage tax deduction and federal highway programs.

Edward Glaeser earned an MBA degree when Edward was ten years old and occasionally brought him to her classes.

Edward Glaeser remembers her teaching him microeconomic concepts, such as marginal cost price theory.

Edward Glaeser believed in preserving West Greenwich Village's smaller historical buildings for personal, economic and aesthetic reasons.

Edward Glaeser grew up in a high rise and believes that higher buildings provide more affordable housing.

Edward Glaeser calls for elimination or lessening of height limitation restrictions, preservationist statutes and other zoning laws.

Edward Glaeser has published almost five articles per year since 1992 in leading peer-reviewed academic economics journals, in addition to many books, other articles, blogs, and op-eds.

Edward Glaeser has made substantial contributions to the empirical study of urban economics.

Edward Glaeser has written on a variety of other topics, ranging from social economics to the economics of religion, from both contemporary and historical perspectives.

Edward Glaeser's work has earned the admiration of a number of prominent economists.

Edward Glaeser develops models using these tools and then evaluates them with real-world data, so as to verify their applicability.

In 2006, Edward Glaeser began writing a regular column for the New York Sun.

Edward Glaeser writes a monthly column for The Boston Globe.

Edward Glaeser has published in leading economic journals on many topics in the field of urban economics.

Edward Glaeser has made important contributions in the field of social capital by identifying underlying economic incentives for social association and volunteering.

In recent years, Edward Glaeser has argued that human capital explains much of the variation in urban and metropolitan level prosperity.

Unlike many pundits and commentators, who attribute skyrocketing housing prices to a housing bubble created by Alan Greenspan's monetary policies, Edward Glaeser pointed out that the increase in housing prices was not uniform throughout the country.

Edward Glaeser claimed that public policy in Houston, Texas, the only city in the United States with no zoning code and therefore, a very elastic housing supply, enabled construction to respond to the demand of a plentiful number of new affordable houses even in 2006.

Edward Glaeser argued that this kept Houston prices flat while elsewhere they escalated.

In 2003, Edward Glaeser collaborated with David Cutler and Jesse Shapiro on a research paper that attempted to explain why Americans had become more obese.