Dr. Pengyu Zhu joined the faculty of the Department of Public Policy and
Administration at Boise State University in 2011 after earning his Ph.D. in Policy,
Planning and Development from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He
also has an M.S. in Forestry with a specialty in Forestry Economics from Auburn
University and an M.S. in Human Geography with a specialty in City and Regional Planning
from Nanjing University in China. 

Dr. Zhu's research interests include transportation, land use, housing, economic
development and public finance.

Articles & Conference Proceedings

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Are Telecommuting and Personal Travel Complements or Substitutes?, Annals of Regional Science (2012)

Whether telecommuting and personal travel are complements or substitutes is a key question in urban...

 

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Demand for Urban Forests in United States Cities (with Yaoqi Zhang), Landscape and Urban Planning (2008)

Extensive economic investigations have shown a variety of benefits derived from urban forests, but study...

 

Donor States and Donee States: An Investigation of Geographic Redistribution in the U.S. Federal Highway Program (with Jeffrey Brown), Proceedings of the 87th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Paper 08-0034 (2008)
 

Demand for Urban Forests and Economic Welfare: Evidence from the Southeastern U.S. Cities (with Yaoqi Zhang), Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (2006)

This study examines the relationship between urban forests and household income and population density in...

 

Mechanism of the Urban Spatial Extension in Metropolitan Areas (with Haibo Hu), Planners (2003)
 

Contributions to Books

Understanding Large Land Holders on the Urban Fringe: A Supply-Side Perspective (with Raphael W. Bostic), The Impact of Large Landowners on Land Markets (2009)