Research
Interests:
Urban Economics, Social Interactions, Segregation, Crime
Working Papers:
A Unified Empirical Framework to Study Segregation, with Gregorio Caetano, revise and resubmit Econometrica.
Do Security Measures Displace Crime? Theory and Evidence from Italian Bank Robberies, with Giovanni Mastrobuoni, revise and resubmit Review of Economics and Statistics.
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation, with Gregorio Caetano, under review.
media: Education Exchange Podcast.
(De)Regulation and Market Thickness, with Jean Guillaume Forand.
Published Papers:
Gender Segregation Within Neighborhoods, with Gregorio Caetano, 2019, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 17:253-263.
Identifying Dynamic Spillovers of Crime With a Causal Approach to Model Selection, with Gregorio Caetano, 2018, Quantitative Economics, 9:343-394.
From Gallons to Miles: A Disaggregate Analaysis of Automobile Travel and Externality Taxes, with Ashley Langer and Clifford Winston, 2017, Journal of Public Economics, 152:34-46.
media: Houston Chronicle, Huffington Post, Gainesville Sun, Brookings Report
School Segregation and the Identification of Tipping Behavior, with Gregorio Caetano, 2017, Journal of Public Economics, 148:115-135.
Replication Materials: readme.txt, Data Archive, Programs Archive
Did The Great Recession Keep Bad Drivers Off the Road?, with Clifford Winston, 2016, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 52:1-26.
media: Washington Post, Bloomberg.
A dynamic Duverger's Law, with Jean Guillaume Forand, 2016, Public Choice, 165:285-306.
An exploratory study of the pricing of legal services, 2014, International Review of Law and Economics, 38:169-173, with Clifford Winston.
Long Run Effects of Mergers: The Case of US Western Railroads, 2011, Journal of Law and Economics, 54:275-303, with Clifford Winston and Scott M. Dennis.
On the Social Desirability of Urban Rail Transit Systems, 2007, Journal of Urban Economics, 62:362-382, with Clifford Winston.
An exploration of the offset hypothesis using disaggregate data: The case of airbags and antilock brakes, 2006, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 32:83-99, with Clifford Winston and Fred Mannering.
Books:
First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers, with Clifford Winston and Robert W. Crandall, 2011, Brookings Press.
media: The Economist.
Works in Progress:
Automobile Fatalities in the US: 1960-2015, with Ashley Langer and Clifford Winston.
Irregular Migration and the Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations in the Central Mediterranean Sea, with Claudio Deiana and Giovanni Mastrobuoni.