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The culture and economics of fertility cannot be separated
Fixing our birth rates will inevitably involve tackling both
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One weird trick to get data centres built
My post with Sam Bowman over on Consumer Surplus and more
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May 2024

Developing Palo Alto is worth $1 trillion
And every household that lives there now could have $30 million
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March 2024

How to build cut and cover
It may not all be over for the least popular type of tunneling
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October 2023

When roads are bad
Roads deliver huge benefits, but they have two big costs
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Why induced demand is fake
And roads are a pretty good way of creating agglomeration, actually
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The dark secret underlying high infrastructure costs
In the UK we have two problems. One: we don’t have enough infrastructure. Commuters across the country face congestion and overcrowding; we haven’t…
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April 2023

How to think about immigration and housing
Since Brits own Britain, more demand for Britain is generally good for us
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March 2023

Low traffic neighbourhoods are a type of cul-de-sac
Except without the biggest downsides of cul-de-sacs
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November 2022

Are we really going to have to do all this again?
Worrying about the Bank of England's plan for a big recession
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October 2022

Regional inequality: also a housing supply issue
The Housing Theory of Everything demo version
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The dark side of surrogate endpoints
Why not all mechanisms to cut costs in drug approval are worth it
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