Research

Selected Publications

Economics

“Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers” (with Mark Hoekstra) forthcoming Journal of Labor Economics

Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Change Risk (with Asaf Bernstein, Matt Gustafson, Ryan Lewis) forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics

Let the Rich Be Flooded: The Unequal Impact of Hurricane Harvey on Household Debt (with Emily Gallagher & Lowell Ricketts) forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics

"The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity" American Economic Review: Insights. forthcoming (with Eric Chyn & Kareem Haggag)

“Hanging out with the Usual Suspects: Neighborhood Peer Effects and Recidivism” Journal of Human Resources. forthcoming (with Kevin Schnepel)

“Win or Lose: Residential Sorting after a School Choice Lottery” Review of Economics & Statistics 102(3), 2020:457-472. (with Andrew Bibler)

“Partners in Crime” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 11(1), 2019:126-50. (with Dave Deming and Steve Ross)

“Life After Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 10(3), 2018:315-44. (with Kevin Schnepel)

“Gentrification and Failing Schools: The Unintended Consequences of School Choice under NCLB” Review of Economics & Statistics. 100.1, 2018: 65-77. (with Steve Ross and Eric Brunner)

“The Value of a Healthy Home: Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values” Journal of Public Economics. 153, 2017: 69-81. (with Kevin Schnepel)

“Agglomeration within an Urban Area” Journal of Urban Economics 91(1), 2016:13-25. (with Erik Johnson)

“School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime: Evidence from the End of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg” The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 129 (1), 2014: 435-476. (with Dave J. Deming and Jonah Rockoff)

“Should Cities go for the Gold? The Long-Term Impacts of Hosting the Olympics” Economic Inquiry, 50(3), 2012: 642-647 (with J. Scott Holladay).

“A Nonparametric Test for Industrial Specialization” Journal of Urban Economics, 71(3), 2012: 312-331 (with Erik Johnson).

“The Location Quotient as an Estimator of Industrial Concentration” Regional Science & Urban Economics, 42(4), 2012: 642-647. (with Erik Johnson)

“Estimating the Value of a New Transit Option” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 41(6), 2011:525-536.

Real Estate and Public Policy Journals

“Hedonic Amenity Valuation and Housing Renovations” Real Estate Economics, 43(3), 2015:652-682.

“Financing Residential Development with Special Districts” Real Estate Economics, 41(1), 2013:131-163 (with Thomas G. Thibodeau).

“Do Enterprise Zone Programs Work? An Analysis at the Borders” Public Finance Review 37(1), 2009: 68-93.

Working Papers

“The School to Prison Pipeline: Do Suspensions Impact Educational Attainment and Adult Crime?” (with Andrew Bacher-Hicks & Dave Deming) revisions requested at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Human Capital Investment after the Storm (with Emily Gallagher & Lowell Ricketts) revisions requested at Review of Financial Studies

Smoking Gun? Linking Gun Ownership to Neighborhood Crime revisions requested at Journal of Public Economics

“Parental Arrest and Incarceration: What Happens to the Children?” (retired - lost data access)

Research Grants/Fellowships

Co-Principal Investigator, Which Matters More to Disadvantaged Children: School or Neighborhood Peers? with Gabriel Pons Rotger & Mark Hoekstra, Independent Research Fund Denmark, DKK 1,446,587 (~$250,000) . 2018-2020.

Principal Investigator, Inequality in the Cost to Society of Sea Level Rise with Asaf Bernstein and Ryan Lewis, University of Colorado Research & Innovation Seed Grant Program, $50,000. 2018-2020.

Principal Investigator, National Evaluation of the Housing and Neighborhood Impact of the HUD Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program, 1993-2016 with Ludovica Gazze, Michael Greenstone and Kevin Schnepel, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, $500,000. 2018-2020.

Investigator, Exploring participation in public health efforts through private multi-family and financial services lenses: Investments, returns, and targeted impacts. Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, $250,000, 2017-2019