I research housing market externalities and intergenerational dynamics using a combination of data and theory. My research fields are urban, labor, and public economics, including subfields such as the economics of the household, public policy analysis, and welfare economics.
As of August 2018, I am an Economist at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Research Interests
- Applied Microeconomics
- Applied Econometrics
- Urban Economics
- Labor & Demographic Economics
- Public Economics
Publications
Local Effects of Large New Apartment Buildings in Low-Income Areas (with Evan Mast and Davin Reed), Upjohn Institute Working Paper #19-316. Forthcoming at Review of Economics and Statistics
Assessing the Impact of Differential Privacy on Measures of Population and Racial Residential Segregation (with David Van Riper, Brad Hershbein, Tracy Kugler, Jose Pacas, Shane Reed, Steve Ruggles, Jonathan Schroeder, and Steve Yesiltepe). Harvard Data Science Review Special Issue 2, 1-62
Social Capital and Labor Market Networks (with Judy Hellerstein, Mark Kutzbach, and David Neumark). Forthcoming at Journal of Regional Science.
Longer-Run Effects of Anti-Poverty Policies on Disadvantaged Neighborhoods (with David Neumark and Brittany Bass). Contemporary Economic Policy 38 July 2020, 409-434.
U.S. Job Flows and the China Shock (with Sanjana Goswami, David Neumark, and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez). Journal of International Economics, 118 May 2019, 123-137
Housing Supply Dynamics under Rent Control: What Can Evictions Tell Us? AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109 May 2019, 393-396.
Beggar Thy Neighbor, Beggar Thy Neighborhood, Papers in Regional Science, 97 June 2018, 439-459.
Current Research
Do Rent Increases Reduce the Housing Supply Under Rent Control? Evidence from Evictions in San Francisco, Upjohn Institute Working Paper #19-296, Winner of the Tiebout Prize in Regional Science for Best Graduate Student Paper.
Why Are Older Workers Moving Less While Working Longer?, Research Institute for Housing America Working Paper
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The Effects of an Ellis Act Eviction on Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status