Listen to our most recent podcast with Brenna Ellison* and Melissa Pflugh Prescott** as they discuss highlights from their recently published paper, “Examining Nutrition and Food Waste Trade-offs Using an Obesity Prevention Context” available in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
The authors address frequently asked questions, including:
You've stayed at one and maybe thought about becoming a host, but what happens when Airbnb comes to the neighborhood? See Minhong Xu and Yilan Xu's results here:
Abstract
Home-sharing increases the potential economic returns to residential properties. We examine how the expansion of Airbnb has stimulated neighborhood investment. Our instrumental variable estimates show that a one-percent increase in Airbnb listings raised the number of residential renovation projects by 0.527 percent and the value of retail renovation investment by 3.691 percent in the following quarter. Meanwhile, the net growth of liquor, retail food, and entertainment business licenses increased by 2.067, 3.933, and 0.755, respectively. The investment effects were driven disproportionately by commercial hosts operating multiple listings and were more prominent in declining neighborhoods.
Save the date: Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop is back!
We are planning to hold the workshop for the twelfth year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Saturday, October 23 to Sunday, October 24, 2021 at the I-Hotel at the University of Illinois campus.
We hope COVID recovery will allow the workshop to be in person. However, we are planning for hybrid options and the possibility of needing to pivot online in case the pandemic resurges. One way or another, the Heartland Workshop will be back!
The goals of HERE@Illinois are, as always, to stimulate research and build community in environmental economics with partial focus on the Midwest. The workshop will bring people together to exchange ideas and foster new collaborations. Through selected paper sessions, it will identify pressing public policy issues and emerging research themes on environmental and resource economics. Finally, it will provide networking and development opportunities for graduate students and early career scholars in environmental and resource economics.
Skim our quarterly newsletter here (March 2021) for the most recent research in all four of our focus areas, including research on the relationship between food waste and obesity, nutrient reduction in the Mississippi River Basin, and COVID-19's impact on renewable energy. Also included are updates and the recording of the third mini-talks webinar.
