Research

Publications

Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions  (with Robert McDonough)

Accepted: Journal of Labor Economics


The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration  (with Dominik Sachs)  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy  (2024)

VoxEU  Marginal Revolution 


Vertical Migration Externalities (with Emmett Saulnier) Regional Science and Urban Economics (2023)


The Environmental Cost of Land-Use Restrictions (with John M. Morehouse) Quantitative Economics (2022)

Minneapolis Fed 


Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid (with Sebastian Findeisen and Dominik Sachs) Journal of Political Economy (2021)

Minneapolis Fed Online Appendix VoxEU 


Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium (with Kevin Hutchinson) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy  (2021)

Minneapolis Fed


Transformations in China's Internal Labor Migration and Hukou System (with Suqin Ge) Journal of Labor Research (2019)


Working Papers 

Optimal Subsidies for Residential Solar (with Emmett Saulnier) RR at Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics


Dynamic Responses to Immigration


Works in Progress

Information Friction and Teachers' Labor Market (with Chao Fu)