Social Spillovers in Homeownership: Evidence from Institutional Investors (with Adam Soliman) (revise & resubmit, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics)
The Death of Big Box and Retail Amenities (with Tingyu Zhou & Shawn Rohlin) (revise & resubmit, Management Science)
Racial Fear in the Neighborhood (with Ben McCartney & Calvin Zhang) (revise & resubmit, Review of Economics & Statistics)
Good Neighborhoods, Good Neighbors, Good Jobs? (with Mark Hoekstra & Gabriel Pons Rotger)
An Anti-IV Approach for Pricing Residential Amenities: Applications to Flood Risk (with Alex Bell, Sophie Calder-Wang & Shusheng Zhong)
The Price and Distributional Impact of Flood Risk Disclosure: Evidence from US Housing Platforms (with Sophie Calder-Wang & Weiling Liu)
Parental Arrest and Incarceration: What Happens to the Children? (retired - lost data access)
Economics
Selection in Public Service: Evidence from School Board Elections (with Hugh Macartney, Geunyong Park & John Singleton) Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.
When Opportunity Costs Others: The Spillover Effects of School Lotteries on Criminality (with Andrew Bibler & Stephen L. Ross) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, conditionally accepted.
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime (with Andrew Bacher-Hicks & Dave Deming) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 16(4), 2024: 165-93. [journal]
The Scale and Nature of Neighborhood Effects on Children (with Mark Hoekstra & Gabriel Pons Rotger) Journal of Public Economics, 240, 2024: 105260. [journal]
Disparate Racial Impacts of Shelby County v. Holder on Voter Turnout (with Noah Braun, Daniel Jones & Ying Shi) Journal of Public Economics, 230, 2024: 105047. [journal]
Smoking Gun? Linking Gun Ownership to Crime Victimization Journal of Public Economics, 222, 2023: 104874. [journal]
Human Capital Investment after the Storm (with Emily Gallagher & Lowell Ricketts) The Review of Financial Studies, 36(7), 2023: 2651-2684. [journal]
The Effect of School and Neighborhood Peers on Achievement, Misbehavior, and Adult Crime (with Mark Hoekstra) Journal of Labor Economics, 41(3), 2023: 643-685. [journal]
Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Change Risk (with Asaf Bernstein, Matt Gustafson & Ryan Lewis) Journal of Financial Economics, 146(3), 2022: 989-1015. [journal]
Let the Rich Be Flooded: The Distribution of Financial Aid and Distress after Hurricane Harvey (with Emily Gallagher & Lowell Ricketts) Journal of Financial Economics, 146(2), 2022: 797-819. [journal]
Hanging Out with the Usual Suspects: Neighborhood Peer Effects and Recidivism (with Kevin Schnepel) Journal of Human Resources, 57(5), 2022: 1758-1788. [journal]
The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity (with Eric Chyn & Kareem Haggag) American Economic Review: Insights, 3(3), 2021: 267-84. [journal]
Win or Lose: Residential Sorting after a School Choice Lottery (with Andrew Bibler) Review of Economics & Statistics, 102(3), 2020: 457-472. [journal]
Partners in Crime (with Dave Deming & Steve Ross) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(1), 2019: 126-150. [journal]
Life after Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead (with Kevin Schnepel) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(3), 2018: 315-44. [journal]
Gentrification and Failing Schools: The Unintended Consequences of School Choice under NCLB (with Steve Ross & Eric Brunner) Review of Economics & Statistics, 100(1), 2018: 65-77.
The Value of a Healthy Home: Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values (with Kevin Schnepel) Journal of Public Economics, 153, 2017: 69-81. [journal]
Why Do Kids Get into Trouble on School Days? Evidence from Teacher Work Days (with David Phillips) Regional Science & Urban Economics, 65, 2017: 16-24.
Agglomeration within an Urban Area (with Erik Johnson) Journal of Urban Economics, 91, 2016: 13-25.
School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime: Evidence from the End of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (with Dave Deming & Jonah Rockoff) The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(1), 2014: 435-476. [journal]
Should Cities Go for the Gold? The Long-Term Impacts of Hosting the Olympics (with J. Scott Holladay) Economic Inquiry, 50(3), 2012: 754-772. [journal]
A Nonparametric Test for Industrial Specialization (with Erik Johnson) Journal of Urban Economics, 71(3), 2012: 312-331.
The Location Quotient as an Estimator of Industrial Concentration (with Erik Johnson) Regional Science & Urban Economics, 42(4), 2012: 642-647.
Estimating the Value of a New Transit Option Regional Science and Urban Economics, 41(6), 2011: 525-536.
Real Estate and Public Policy
Hedonic Amenity Valuation and Housing Renovations Real Estate Economics, 43(3), 2015: 652-682.
Local Option, Alcohol and Crime The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 14(3), 2014: 791-816. [journal]
Financing Residential Development with Special Districts (with Thomas G. Thibodeau) Real Estate Economics, 41(1), 2013: 131-163.
“Debrucing” the Link between Tax and Expenditure Limits and Special District Governments (with Deborah A. Carroll) Growth & Change, 43(2), 2012: 273-303.
The Effects of the Announcement and Opening of Light Rail Transit Stations on Neighborhood Crime (with Suzanne Leland & David Swindell) Journal of Urban Affairs, 33(5), 2011: 549-566.
Intrametropolitan Decentralization: Is Government Structure Capitalized in Property Values? (with Thomas G. Thibodeau) Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 42(4), 2011: 416-450. [journal]
Examining the Logic Behind the Self-Help, Self-Taxing Movement: Business Improvement District Formation (with Suzanne Leland) Public Budgeting & Finance, 29(4), 2009: 108-124.
Do Enterprise Zones Work? An Analysis at the Borders Public Finance Review, 37(1), 2009: 68-93.