Research

I do mostly applied research in urban/regional economics and local public finance. A list of my most recent published work and some of my on-going projects is provided below. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Journal Articles
  1. Income Segregation’s Impact on Local Public Expenditures: Evidence from Municipalities and School Districts, 1980–2010
    Ryan M. Gallagher
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021
  2. Heterogeneity of Birth-State Effects on Internal Migration
    Ryan M. Gallagher, and Joseph Persky
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020
  3. Restrictive Zoning’s Deleterious Impact on the Local Education Property Tax Base: Evidence from Zoning District Boundaries and Municipal Finances
    Ryan M. Gallagher
    National Tax Journal, 2019
  4. The Geography of Family Differences and Intergenerational Mobility
    Ryan M. Gallagher, Robert Kaestner, and Joseph Persky
    Journal of Economic Geography, 2019
  5. The Growth of Local Education Transfers: Explaining How Older Households Have Supported
    Ryan M. Gallagher, Joseph J. Persky, and Haydar Kurban
    Public Finance Review, 2018
  6. The Fiscal Externality of Multifamily Housing and its Impact on the Property Tax: Evidence from Cities and Schools: 1980 - 2010
    Ryan M. Gallagher
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016
  7. Demographic Changes and Education Expenditures: A Reinterpretation
    Haydar Kurban, Ryan M. Gallagher, and Joseph J. Persky
    Economics of Education Review, 2015
  8. An Examination of Cannibalization Effects within the Riverboat Gaming Industry: The Case of Illinois-Area Casinos
    Ryan M. Gallagher
    Growth and Change, 2014
  9. Shipping Costs, Information Costs, and the Sources of Industrial Co-Agglomeration
    Ryan M. Gallagher
    Journal of Regional Science, 2013
  10. Small Homes, Public Schools, and Property Tax Capitalization
    Ryan M. Gallagher, Haydar Kurban, and Joseph J. Persky
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2013
  11. Estimating Local Redistribution Through Property-Tax-Funded School Systems
    Haydar Kurban, Ryan M. Gallagher, and Joseph J. Persky
    National Tax Journal, 2012
  12. A Beginner’s Guide To Creating Small-Area Cross-Tabulations
    Haydar Kurban, Ryan M. Gallagher, Gulriz Aytekin Kurban, and 1 more author
    Cityscape, 2011
Work In Progress

“The Long -Run Impacts of Zoning the Suburbs” (w/ Allison Shertzer & Tate Twinam)

“Municipal Annexation in Post-WWII Suburbia and the Evolution of Urban Land Value, 1946–1969”

“Forgetting Roy: The Use of Movers to Identify Effects of Place” (w/ Robert Kaestner)

“Did Deindustrialization Accelerate Growth in Suburban Heterogeneity?” (w/ Joseph Persky)