Stephen Sheppard

James Phinney Baxter III Professor of Public Affairs

Office: Fernald 9
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
Fernald House
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

Washington University, St. Louis, Ph.D., 1984
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, B.Sc., 1977

Fields of Specialization

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

Research

Recent Publications

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

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

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

__________, (with Paul Cheshire) The Welfare Economics of Land Use Planning’, Journal of Urban Economics, 52, 242-269, (2002).

__________, (with Stephen Mayo) ‘Housing Supply and the Effects of Stochastic Development Control’, Journal of Housing Economics, 10, 109-128 (2001).

__________, (with Phil McCann) "Public Investment and Regional Labour Markets: The Role of UK Higher Education," Public Investment and Regional Development: Essays in Honour of Moss Madden, (2001).

__________, (with Nadeem ul Haque and Peter Montiel) "Fiscal Austerity and Public Servant Quality," Economic Inquiry, 38, July (2000).

__________, (with Paul Cheshire) "Building on brown fields: the long term price we pay," Planning in London, Issue 33, April-June (2000).

__________, "Hedonic Analysis of Housing Markets," Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 3: Applied Urban Economics, (1999).

__________, (with Paul Cheshire) "Estimating Demand for Housing, Land, and Neighbourhood Characteristics," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 60, August (1998).

Other

Selected Work Experience

Professor of Economics Oberlin College, 1998-2000

Associate Professor of Economics Oberlin College, 1993-1998