Blog – Stephanie Kestelman Stephanie Kestelman's website

More, including links to the Center for Building in North America's report, here: skestelman.github.io/blog/

Economists are trained to answer“What happens to prices when barriers to entry are removed?” Policymakers would benefit from systematic analysis of how elevator prices, maintenance costs & overall cost of building multifamily housing might change if the US adopted the global standard

This divergence in code adoption acts as a barrier to entry, reducing competition in the markets for elevator manufacturing, installation, and maintenance.

North America has an elevator problem. Elevators are more expensive to install and maintain in the United States and Canada than elsewhere in the developed world. These higher costs are driven in part by the fact that the US & Canada use a different elevator code than most of the rest of the world

An infographic announcing two infrastructure grant opportunities from the Arnold Ventures Infrastructure initiative.

AV is launching two new Infrastructure RFPs to strengthen the evidence base for better housing and transportation systems in the US:
- Measurement and Evaluation of State and Local Housing Supply Reforms
- Transportation Research and Policy
Letters of Interest are due March 27: bit.ly/4rEZTKz

📢Heavily revised working paper on AI + Zoning —

with @alexbartik.bsky.social and Dan Milo, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI.

Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:

Congratulations to @s-stantcheva.bsky.social, who received the 2025 Clark medal!

EXCITINGLY

ALSO hi, I joined this platform after you shamed me. Can’t believe Mara friggin Wilson follows you. How.

I wasn’t using the other platform, so I took my sweet time moving over here. Looking forward to checking out #econsky