A New Measure of the Local Regulatory Environment for Housing Markets: The Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index

By Joseph Gyourko, Albert Saiz, Anita A. Summers. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Land Use Regulation and Welfare (2014, neutral): “This is contrary to our prior that more attractive places should be regulated more intensively, but is consistent with table 1 and with Gyourko et al. (2008) which suggest that more remote and less valuable land is regulated more intensively.”
House Prices, Local Demand, and Retail Prices (2019, positive): “We use two measures of housing supply elasticity as instruments for house price changes: the primarily geography-based measure of Saiz (2010) and the Wharton Regulation Index from Gyourko et al. (2008). Saiz (2010) uses information on the geography of a metropolitan area to measure the ease with whi”
On the origins of land use regulations: theory and evidence from us metro areas (2013, neutral): “See Gyourko et al. (2008) for details on the compilation.”
Swings in Commercial and Residential Land Prices in the United States (2013, methodology): “The Wharton survey on land-use regulation, conducted by Gyourko, Saiz, and Summers (2008), provides additional evidence that zoning could account for the price differentials in our estimates.”
The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market: The Case of Airbnb (2018, neutral): “The second index is the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index (WRLURI), which measures regulation related to land use in each metropolitan area and is based on a nationwide survey described in Gyourko et al. (2008).(7) Figures 4a and A2 confirm that constraints to hotel capacity are correlat”
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility (2018, positive): “The Wharton Land Use Regulation Index is constructed using city-level data from Gyourko et al. (2008). The cities in the original dataset are crosswalked to 247 commuting zones (representing 87% of the US population).”
Firm Sorting and Agglomeration (2018, neutral): “The remaining e↵ect can be attributed 62Empirically, Gyourko et al. (2008) develop an index of di↵erences in the local land-use regulatory climate across US cities based on various measures of the local regulatory environment.”
Upzoning Chicago: Impacts of a Zoning Reform on Property Values and Housing Construction (2020, background): “The latter two studies’ metrics of zoning restrictions are also limited to data from the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index (Gyourko, Saiz, and Summers 2008), a measure that asks local practitioners to offer insight into typical permitting and approval times for projects and that does not”