Matthew E. Kahn

Matthew E. Kahn is a Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He has previously taught at Columbia, UCLA, and the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard and Stanford. He is the author of Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (Brookings Institution Press 2006) and the co-author of Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton University Press 2008). He is also the author of Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter World (Basic Books 2010) and the co-author of Blue Skies Over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China (Princeton University Press 2016). He blogs about environmental and urban issues at greeneconomics.blogspot.com.

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This paper proposes three complementary policies for enhancing urban resilience to new climate risk. The first focuses on improving key urban infrastructure. The second addresses the urban poor, who are the most vulnerable in the face of climate change risks. The third proposal aims to reduce the cost of adaptation through better-functioning markets, and to allow prices of natural resources, energy, and coastal insurance to reflect true conditions.

Matthew Kahn and David Levinson propose a reorganization of our national highway infrastructure priorities to preserve, maintain, and enhance existing infrastructure and the creation of the Federal Highway Bank to meet these goals.

The Hamilton Project and the Metropolitan Policy Program held a forum focused on state strategies that can help close budget deficits while also growing state economies and creating much-needed jobs. As part of the event, The Hamilton Project released three new policy papers, as well as a strategy paper, focused on helping state and local governments invest more efficiently in infrastructure to ensure long-term economic competitiveness.

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