Employment
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2015 - present
Director, Small Business Credit Survey, 2024 -
Policy Economist, 2015 -
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Georgia State University - 2015
M.A., Economics, Georgia State University - 2013
B.A., Economics, Principia College - 2003
Research Activities
Refereed Work
"What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?" with Dionissi Aliprantis and Kristen Tauber. Journal of Housing Economics, 129, 2024: 102009.
"Landlords and access to opportunity," with Dionissi Aliprantis and David Phillips. Journal of Urban Economics, 129, 2022: 103420.
"Discrimination in mortgage lending: Evidence from a correspondence experiment," with Andrew Hanson, Zack Hawley and Bo Liu. Journal of Urban Economics, 92, 2016, 48-65.
"Housing Market Distortions and the Mortgage Interest Deduction," with Andrew Hanson. Public Finance Review, 42 (5), 2014, 582-607.
"Metropolitan Area Home Prices and the Mortgage Interest Deduction: Estimates and Simulations from Policy Change," with Andrew Hanson. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 59, 2016, 12-23.
Working Papers
"What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?" with Dionissi Aliprantis and Kristen Tauber
"Landlords and access to opportunity," with Dionissi Aliprantis and David Phillips
“The Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Local Home Values"
"Does Differential Treatment Translate to Differential Outcomes for Minority Borrowers? Evidence from Matching a Field Experiment to Loan-Level Data," with Andrew Hanson and Zack Hawley
Policy
"Making Sense of Eviction Trends during the Pandemic," 2022.
"Measuring Evictions during the COVID-19 Crisis," with Rebecca Cowin and Clare Stevens. 2020.
"How Low Can Employment Growth Go without Boosting the Unemployment Rate in Fourth District States?" 2017.
Presentations
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (ASSA), National Tax Association (ASSA), North American Regional Science Council, Urban Economics Association (NARSC), Southern Economic Association, Association of Public Policy and Management, Lincoln Land Institute, Kent State, Cleveland State, FRB System Committee on Regional Analysis, FRB Atlanta Real Estate Conference, Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group, Neighborworks
Referee Service
Housing Policy Debate, National Tax Journal, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Public Finance Review, Urban Studies, Journal of Banking & Finance
Teaching Experience
Microeconomic Theory, master’s level (guest lecturer), The Global Economy, Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Comparative Economic Systems, Evolution of Economic Thought
Updated October 2024