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
Beggar Thy Neighbor, Beggar Thy Neighborhood , Papers in Regional Science, 97 (2) 2018, 439-459.
Current Research
Do Rent Increases Reduce the Housing Supply Under Rent Control? Evidence from Evictions in San Francisco Winner of the Tiebout Prize in Regional Science for Best Graduate Student Paper
The Grandparenthood Effect: Labor Force Attachment Responses and Trends Among Older Workers
Longer-Run Effects of Anti-Poverty Policies on Disadvantaged Neighborhoods (with David Neumark and Brittany Bass), NBER Working Paper #25231, November 2018, submitted.
Social Capital and Labor Market Networks (with Judy Hellerstein, Mark Kutzbach, and David Neumark), NBER Working Paper #23959, October 2017, submitted.
U.S. Job Flows and the China Shock (with Sanjana Goswami, David Neumark, and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez), NBER Working Paper #24080, September 2018, resubmitted to The Journal of International Economics.
A Homeownership Dilemma? Mobility After Job Loss in an Aging Workforce.
Does Luxury Housing Construction Increase Rents in Gentrifying Areas? (with Evan Mast and Davin Reed)
The Power of the Pill for Women Working Longer" (with Yulya Truskinovsky)
The Regime that Abolishes Itself: Market Exit, Inequality, and the Fate of Rent Control Policies
Minimum Wages and Local Business Establishments (with David Neumark)
A Theory of Love and War: The Vietnam Draft, Assortive Mating, and crime in the 1980's and 1990's (with Nanneh Chehras, Ian Finn, and Jose Luis Luna Alpizar)
References
- Jan Bruckner (Chair)
- David Neumark
- Marianne Bitler
- Judy Hellerstein