Research

Publications

Why are Low-skilled Workers less Mobile? The Role of Mobility Costs and Spatial Frictions (with Benoit Schmutz and E. Vidal-Naquet)

Annals of Economics and Statistics, June, 2021

Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Christian Belzil and Arnaud Maurel)

Journal of Labor Economics,  April 2021.

Frictional Labor Mobility  (with Benoit Schmutz)

 The Review of Economic Studies, July 2019. 

Housing Wealth Accumulation: The role of public housing  (with Florence Goffette-Nagot)

  Regional Science and Urban Economics, March 2016.

Recent Working Papers

1.  A Dynamic Theory of the Urban Network  (with Benoit Schmutz)  (Revise and resubmit Journal of Urban Economics).

We provide a microfoundation of Zipf using an equilibrium search model with imperfect mobility. 

2.  Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime  (with Bocar Ba, Patrick Bayer, Nayoung Rim, Roman Rivera)

We show that assigning more senior officers in high crime areas would reduce violent crime rate by 4.6 percent in the city of Chicago.

3. School Choice Under Imperfect Information  (with Kehinde Ajayi) 

   Using a model where students endogenous build consideration sets in order to choose schools, we report important inefficiencies under centralized allocation.

4.  Schooling Investment, Mismatch and Wage Inequality ( with Andrew Shephard )

    Using a general equilibrium job search model, we show policies such as a free tuition college increase wage inequality. 

Works in progress

Collective Migration