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Associate Dean for Social Sciences David M. Cutler, another co-author of the obesity study, described Glaeser as “a model collaborator—wonderful to talk to, with great ideas [and] lots of energy...
Last January, Glaeser co-authored a study that found the increasing ease of food preparation has increased Americans’ caloric intake. Since the growth of the pre-packaged food industry allows consumers to spend less time preparing meals, Americans are eating more—and their waist lines are expanding...
...used to eat chocolate-covered espresso beans until our primary care physicians cut us off,” recounted Sacerdote, who earned his doctorate from Harvard and has co-written several papers with Glaeser. “He always had a great supply of Dominican cigars, and you can’t sleep for a day after having one of those. For many of his graduate students, including me, he’s the whole reason we stayed in economics and saw it as a worthwhile, fun and useful pursuit,” Sacerdote wrote...
...With Professor Glaeser, as we had with Professor Altshuler, we get someone who has a first-rate mind, is a terrific writer, and who appreciates the intersection between research and the world of practice,” said Taubman Center associate director David Luberoff, who will leave his current post to become Executive director of the Rappaport Institute this summer...
...Glaeser, asked to summarize his conclusions on housing regulations, eloquently explained: “Rent control...