Brendan O'Flaherty, Ph.D.

Co-Director

Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia University

Selected Publications

Urban Economics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming.

Yinghua H, O'Flaherty B, Rosenheck RA. 2010. Is shared housing a way to reduce homelessness? The effect of household arrangements on formerly homeless people. Journal of Housing Economics 19:1-12.

O'Flaherty B, Wu T. 2008. Homeless shelters for single adults: Why does their population change? Social Service Review 82(3):511-50.

O'Flaherty B, Ellen I. 2007. Do government programs make households too small? Evidence from New York City, 2007. Population Research and Policy Review 26(4):387-409.

O'Flaherty B, Wu T. 2006. Fewer subsidized exits and a recession: How New York City's family homeless shelter population became immense. Journal of Housing Economics 15:99-125.

O'Flaherty B. 2004. Wrong person and wrong place: For homelessness the conjunction is what matters. Journal of Housing Economics 14:1-15.