This paper analyzes the effect of regulations governing land use and residential construction upon the course of housing prices in California. We explore the linkage between regulation and housing prices using measures of housing prices estimated from the Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) of the 1990 and 2000 Census of Population and Housing, together with a detailed cross-sectional land use ...

Many construction projects contain several identical or similar units, such as floors in multistory buildings, houses in housing developments, sections of pipelines or highways. Repetitive processes arise from the subdivision of a generalized construction process into specific activities associated with particular units. In many cases it is possible to perform individual processes (repeated in ...

Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on ...

Anlr. Lat'Hon is a researcher at the National Swedish Institute for Building Research In Lund, Sweden. She was trained as an architect/ town planner and has a Ph.D. in Architecture. After working"for about fifteen yeatS as a town planner for Swedish municipalities as well as for the government ofBotswana, she started her research on housing in Botswana, with a focus on the transition from tradi...

The efficacy of managing a construction project mainly depends on proper planning and scheduling. Mass housing projects are highly repetitive in nature, as the methods used for construction are often repetitive or cyclic. Resources are therefore being deployed repeatedly for the similar or identical tasks in these projects. In order to eradicate delays in mobilizing resources, an efficient reso...