Fernando Vendramel Ferreira Faculty Profile

Fernando Vendramel Ferreira
Assistant Professor of Real Estate

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2004; MA, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1999; BA, State University of Maringá, Brazil, 1997

Research Areas
Urban economics and real estate; public economics; labor economics

Current Projects
Effects of property taxes on household mobility and housing choice; capitalization of school quality on housing prices; air quality legislation and heterogeneity in exposure rates to pollution; impact of local politics on housing prices and other economic outcomes.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2004-present.

Other Positions
Research Assistant, Public Policy Institute of California, 2000-2002.

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
National Tax Association 2004 Outstanding Dissertation Award

Representative Publications
“You Can Take It with You: Transferability of Proposition 13 Tax Benefits, Residential Mobility, and Willingness to Pay for Housing Amenities.” Ph.D. Dissertation and 2004 NBER Summer Institute.

(with P. Bayer and R. McMillan)
“A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods” Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper, Yale University.