Stephen Sheppard

Robert F. White Class of 1952 Professor of Economics

Office: South Academic Building Rm. 325
Webpage: http://lanfiles.williams.edu/~ssheppar/
E-mail: stephen.c.sheppard@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-3184
Fax: (413) 597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
South Academic Building
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

Washington University, St. Louis, Ph.D., 1984
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, B.Sc., 1977
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Fields of Specialization

Urban economics
land use regulation
housing markets
local public finance and environmental economics

Research

Recent Publications

‘Some Evidence that Women Are More Mobile Than Men: Gender Differences in U.K. Graduate Migration Behavior’, by Alessandra Faggian, Philip McCann and Sheppard, Stephen, Journal of Regional Science, 47, 517-539, (2007).

‘The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form’ by S. Brock Blomberg and Stephen Sheppard, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, p. 257-290, (2007).

‘Impact of Rent Controls in Non-Walrasian Markets: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach’, by Ralph Bradburd, Stephen Sheppard, Joseph Bergeron and Eric Engler, Journal of Regional Science, 46, 455-491, (2006).

‘An Analysis of Ethnic Differences in UK Graduate Migration Behaviour’, by Alessandra Faggian, Philip McCann and Stephen Sheppard, Annals of Regional Science, 40 (2), 461-471, (2006).

‘The Distributional Impact of Housing Discrimination in a Non-Walrasian Setting’, by Ralph Bradburd, Stephen Sheppard, Joseph Bergeron, Eric Engler and Evan Gee, Journal of Housing Economics, 14, 61-91, (2005).

‘The Introduction of Price Signals into Land Use Planning Decision-making: a proposal’ by Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard, Urban Studies, 42, 647-663, (2005).

‘Land Use Regulation and Its Impact on Welfare’ by Stephen Sheppard, Chapter 10 (pp 285-318) in Urban Dynamics and Growth: Advances in Urban Economics, edited by Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp, Elsevier, Amsterdam (2004).

‘Land Markets and Land Market Regulation: Progress Towards Understanding’ by Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 34, 619-837, (2004). [2]

#8216;Capitalising The Value Of Free Schools: The Impact of Supply Characteristics and Uncertainty’ by Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard, The Economic Journal, 114, F397-F424, (2004). [4]

‘Introduction to Feature: The Price of Access to Better Neighbourhoods’ by Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard, The Economic Journal, 114, F391-F396, (2004).

‘Taxes Versus Regulation: the Welfare Impacts of Policies for Containing Sprawl’, Paul Cheshire, Stephen Sheppard, in The Property Tax, Land Use and Land Use Regulation, edited by Dick Netzer, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham (2003).

‘The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Industrial Location Theory’, Phil McCann, Stephen Sheppard, Regional Studies, 37, 6-7, 649-663, (2003).

‘Income inequality and residential segregation: labour sorting and the demand for positional goods’,Paul Cheshire, Vasillis Monastiriotis, Stephen Sheppard in R. Martin and P. Morrison (eds) Geographies of Labour Market Inequality, London: Routledge, 83-109, (2003).

Other

Selected Work Experience

Professor of Economics Oberlin College, 1998-2000

Associate Professor of Economics Oberlin College, 1993-1998