Justin Tyndall
Justin Tyndall awarded the Stough-Johansson Springer Award for research in pedestrian safety
Congratulations to Justin Tyndall, whose joint work with Cody Nehiba was awarded the Stough-Johansson Springer Award. Their paper, titled “Highways and Pedestrian Deaths in US Neighborhoods”, was deemed the best paper presented by an early-career scholar at the 62th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association. Each year the Springer Prize is awarded for the best paper […]
Read MoreJustin Tyndall and Philip Garboden featured in Hawaii Business Magazine to discuss private equity landlords in Hawai’i
Private equity firms have been buying rental properties in West O‘ahu. In an interview with Hawaii Business Magazine, UHERO’s Justin Tydnall and Philip Garboden explain why private equity landlords’ practices differ from those of smaller landlords, and what impacts private equity landlords may have on local renters. “The reality is until we start building 10,000 […]
Read MoreUHERO’s Justin Tyndall’s “case for taxing large vehicles” receives national media attention
UHERO’s Justin Tyndall’s recent publication in Economics of Transportation has received national media coverage, including Medium, Streetsblog, Financial Times, and Vox. Using data covering fatal vehicle collisions in the US and exploiting heterogeneity in changing vehicle fleets across metros for identification, Tyndall estimates that replacing the growth in Sport Utility Vehicles with cars would have […]
Read MoreHomeowner Politics and Housing Supply
Restrictions on housing supply have contributed to a rapid increase in home prices and rents in many large cities. Incumbent homeowners may benefit financially from rising prices, while renters are harmed. Incumbent residents may also resist new local housing due to local congestion externalities. Supply restrictions are often implemented by city councils at the behest […]
Read MoreMeasuring the Burden of Housing Regulation in Hawaii
By Rachel Inafuku, Justin Tyndall, and Carl Bonham Home prices in Hawaii are among the highest in the nation: in 2021 the median single-family home resale price was about two and a half times the national median. One of the factors that may explain Hawaii’s high home prices are government regulations that limit the ability of the housing market to […]
Read MoreThe Rising Cost of Climate Change on Home Values
By Justin Tyndall Climate change poses a clear threat to coastal real estate assets. As sea level rises and coastal weather events become more severe, exposed properties will experience recurring damage and some will become uninhabitable. Homebuyers may fail to fully appreciate the threat of sea level rise, causing homes in coastal areas to be […]
Read MoreBlog: Improving Pedestrian Safety in Hawaiʻi
By Justin Tyndall Over 2,500 people have been killed in motor vehicle crashes in Hawaiʻi since 2000, averaging a person every three days. Car crashes are a leading cause of accidental death, particularly for younger people. In a different setting, this scale of mortality might be treated as a public health emergency, but we have […]
Read MoreThe local labour market effects of light rail transit
Many US cities have made large investments in light rail transit in order to improve commuting networks. I analyse the labour market effects of light rail in four US metros. I propose a new instrumental variable to overcome endogeneity in transit station location, enabling causal identification of neighbourhood effects. Light rail stations are found to drastically improve […]
Read MoreTraffic in Honolulu: How to Make Transitory Pandemic Gains Permanent
By Justin Tyndall and Sumner La Croix During the COVID-19 pandemic, Honolulu traffic became much less congested. Local and state governments could help residents keep the social benefits from traffic control by providing incentives to private firms to stagger hours and/or keep more employees working at home. A congestion zone fee to drive within the downtown-to-Waikiki corridor […]
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