Department of Economics
Arizona State University
Campus Box 879801
Tempe, Arizona 85287-9801
Email: alvin.murphy@asu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC
M.A., Economics, University College Dublin, Ireland
B.A., Economics and Politics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Publications
- Tax Policy and the Heterogeneous Costs of Homeownership, with Kelly Bishop, Jakob Dowling, and Nick Kuminoff, accepted at Journal of Urban Economics.
Companion website with data: www.housingusercost.org - The Marginal Cost of Mortality Risk Reduction: Evidence from Housing Markets, with Kelly Bishop, Nick Kuminoff, and Sophie Mathes, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 139, January 2024
- Valuing Time-Varying Attributes using the Hedonic Model: When is a Dynamic Approach Necessary? with Kelly Bishop, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 101, No. 1, March 2019
- Information Asymmetry, Manufacturer-Retailer Contracts, and Two-Sided Entry, with Tat Chan and Li Wang, International Economic Review, Vol. 59, No. 4, Nov. 2018
- A Dynamic Model of Housing Supply, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 10, No. 4, Nov. 2018
- A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods, with Patrick Bayer, Robert McMillan, and Christopher Timmins, Econometrica, Vol. 84, No. 3, May 2016
- Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons from a Housing Assistance Experiment, with Sebastian Galiani and Juan Pantano, American Economic Review, Vol. 105, No. 11, Nov. 2015
- Estimating the Willingness-to-Pay to Avoid Violent Crime: A Dynamic Approach, with Kelly Bishop, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 101, No. 3, May 2011
- Explaining Cross-Racial Differences in Teenage Labor Force Participation: Results from a General Equilibrium Search Model, with Tom Ahn, Peter Arcidiacono, and Omari Swinton, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 156, No. 1, May 2010
Working Papers and Work in Progress
- Neighborhood Change and the Valuation of Urban Amenities: Incorporating Dynamic Behavior into the Hedonic Model, with Kelly Bishop
- Optimal Housing Policy and Neighborhood Choice, with Samuel Dastrup, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Juan Pantano
- Zoning and Housing Supply, with Marcelo Álvez and Kyle Butts
- The Impact of Mobility Costs,'' with Kelly Bishop, Nick Kuminoff, and Liam Perdue
- Information and Household Sorting,'' with Kelly Bishop, Nick Kuminoff, and Michael Price
- Predictable Appreciation, Market Efficiency, and the Estimation of Hedonic Models, with Kelly Bishop
- The Effect of Neighborhood Spillovers on Mortgage Selection, with Ruben Hernandez-Murillo and Rajdeep Sengupta