Raphael Bostic – Bedrosian Center

The Joint Effects of Income, Vehicle Technology, and Rail Transit Access on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

New paper published: The Joint Effects of Income, Vehicle Technology, and Rail Transit Access on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Marlon G. Boarnet, Raphael W. Bostic, Andrew Eisenlohr, Seva Rodnyansky, Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei, Huê-Tâm Webb Jamme First Published July 28, 2018 Research Article https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198118787087 * Abstract This paper examines the relationship between income, Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 4 yearsJuly 28, 2019 ago

San Francisco Fed elevates a gay woman — its vice president — to the top job

Los Angeles Timesnoted that former USC Professor Raphael Bosticis the first African-American to lead a Federal Reserve Bank. Former USC Professor Raphael Bostic made historyin 2017 when he was chosen as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, becoming the first African American to lead one of the Fed’s Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 5 yearsSeptember 14, 2018 ago

Moving To California For Work Is Hard — Because Housing

LAistquoted Raphael Bosticof the USC Price School about the high-cost of housing, and that it might push certain workers out of state and affect the California economy. USC public policy professor Raphael Bostic said if housing costs continue to push certain workers out of state, California’s economic growth could be affected. Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 5 yearsJune 19, 2018 ago

Is California’s expensive housing scaring away job seekers?

KPCC-FM interviewed Raphael Bostic of the USC Price School about the high-cost of housing, and that it might push certain workers out of state and affect the California economy. USC public policy professor Raphael Bostic said if housing costs continue to push certain workers out of state, California’s economic growth could be Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 5 yearsJune 18, 2018 ago

The Risky, Rocky Ride of Today’s Economy . . . and the Central Bankers Who Keep Watch

By USC Bedrosian Center, 5 yearsFebruary 28, 2018 ago

Complications and Contradictions in a Changing Neighborhood

by Lisa Bates Across the street from Humboldt Gardens is a small apartment complex for families with a parent in recovery from substance or alcohol addiction, and the office where residents meet with their Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) caseworkers. There’s a Salvation Army and a Head Start nearby, Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 5 yearsJanuary 24, 2018 ago

The Bloomberg 50 most influential in global business, 2017

Bloomberg: From finance and politics to tech and entertainment, these people defined global business in 2017. Raphael Bostic PRESIDENT AND CEO, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA While in the Obama administration, the University of Southern California economist fought housing discrimination against gays and racial minorities; he broke barriers when he Read more…

By Anne Johnson, 5 yearsNovember 30, 2017 ago

Access to Opportunity, the conceptual policy framework

by Dr. Raphael Bostic, President & Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Professor, University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy and Sheryl Whitney, Partner, Whitney Jennings In our last post, which also happened to be our first post, we introduced the Access to Opportunity project, including the Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 6 yearsJune 26, 2017 ago

Stories from inside the battle for successful children and families

by Dr. Raphael Bostic, President & Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Professor, University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy and Sheryl Whitney, Partner, Whitney Jennings Opportunity. It has become the buzz word for policymakers across the political spectrum. From Paul Ryan to Barack Obama and Bernie Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 6 yearsJune 14, 2017 ago

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

By USC Bedrosian Center, 6 yearsMay 30, 2017 ago

Cop in the Hood

By USC Bedrosian Center, 6 yearsApril 24, 2017 ago

The Underground Railroad

By USC Bedrosian Center, 6 yearsMarch 27, 2017 ago

The Affordable Housing Crisis

By USC Bedrosian Center, 6 yearsFebruary 7, 2017 ago

American Gods

By USC Bedrosian Center, 6 yearsJanuary 30, 2017 ago

The City & The City

By USC Bedrosian Center, 6 yearsDecember 21, 2016 ago

Drown

By USC Bedrosian Center, 6 yearsNovember 29, 2016 ago

Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

Wade Graham’s latest book Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World< is ostensibly about the architects the seven big ideas that have shaped contemporary cities across the world. Our discussion centers on whether Graham has fulfilled that mission or whether he's trapped in the confines of an under 350 page book for this massive introduction to urban planning and city history. The answer may lie in the reader rather than the book, listen to the conversation for a lively jaunt through recent architectural history.

By USC Bedrosian Center, 7 yearsAugust 29, 2016 ago

Acolin, Bostic, Painter publish new article in Journal of Urban Economics

Arthur Acolin, Raphael Bostic, and Gary Painter have published a paper in the Journal of Economics which tests for discrimination in the rental housing market against names which are recognized as belonging to specific immigrant groups. Acolin, Arthur; Bostic, Raphael; Painter, Gary. (9/2016) A field study of rental market discrimination across origins Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 7 yearsAugust 24, 2016 ago

Acolin, Bostic, Painter publish new article in Journal of Urban Economics

Arthur Acolin, Raphael Bostic, and Gary Painter have published a paper in the Journal of Economics which tests for discrimination in the rental housing market against names which are recognized as belonging to specific immigrant groups.

By USC Bedrosian Center, 7 yearsAugust 24, 2016 ago

An Investment Worth Making: Financing the New American Dream

by Raphael Bostic In her new book How the Other Half Banks, Mehrsa Baradaran, a law professor at the University of Georgia, tells the true story of three borrowers. The first, named Tanya, is a single mother of two. She had to take off work to take care of her son Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 7 yearsAugust 18, 2016 ago

When Bad Loans Happen to Good People: The Horror Story of the “Monster”

While much of my academic career has been spent studying how families get credit to buy homes, the past few years have made me much more aware that simply getting credit isn’t a goal in itself. No, if the credit isn’t sensible and sustainable, the pain can be far worse Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 7 yearsAugust 5, 2016 ago

Why rents have gone through the roof in New Orleans and across the nation

Times Picayune ran commentary by Professors Raphael Bostic, the Bedrosian Chair in Governance, and Richard Green, Director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, and colleagues on the continued nationwide increase in rental rates. Pointing to a slowdown in construction, smaller households, declining renter incomes, as well as the increase Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 7 yearsAugust 2, 2016 ago

Citizen: An American Lyric

This month’s book is both poetry and criticism, Citizen: An American Lyric. Rankine’s piece is a revolution. A political, a poetic, complex revolution in 169 pages. We look at it through an unusual lens – what should we take away from works of art as we think about governance in America?

By USC Bedrosian Center, 7 yearsJuly 25, 2016 ago

Democracy Is an Act of Inclusion: Why Home Matters in Election Season

by Raphael Bostic If you list the 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development—generally considered to be the most highly developed, democratic nations in the world—and you rank them by the percent of citizens who voted in the last major election, the United States will come in Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 7 yearsJuly 21, 2016 ago

The Invisible Cost of College: Students Who Can’t Afford a Secure Home

by Raphael Bostic I love teaching. I love getting to know my students, challenging them to think in new ways, and engaging them in a conversation centered around important questions. I love seeing their passion to solve great problems, and I love sharing what I’ve learned to help them solve those Read more…

By USC Bedrosian Center, 7 yearsJuly 7, 2016 ago

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