Research

PUBLICATIONS

"Taxing Uber", (With David R. Agrawal),  Journal of Public Economics, 2023, Vol 221.

"Legal Heritage and Urban Slums", (With Per Fredriksson, Satyendra Kumar Gupta, and Jim Wollscheid), Journal of Regional Science, 2023, Vol. 63.

"Urban Planning Policies and the Cost of Living in Large Cities", (With William Larson and Anthony Yezer),  Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022,  Vol. 96, 103802

"The Long Run Effects of Minimum Lot Size Zoning on Neighborhood Redevelopment",  Journal of Housing Economics, 2022, Vol. 55, 101806.

"Self-Driving Cars and the City: Effects on Sprawl, Energy Consumption, and Housing Affordability," (with William Larson),   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020, Vol. 81, 103484.

 "The General Equilibrium Effects of HOV Lanes on Congestion, Sprawl, Energy Use, and Carbon Emissions",  Journal of Regional Science , 2020, Vol. 60: 174-200. 

“Oil Prices and Urban Housing Demand”, (with William Larson),  Real Estate Economics, 2020, Vol. 48, No.3, 808-849.

"Telework: Urban Form, Energy Consumption, and Greenhouse Gas Implications", (with William Larson),  Economic Inquiry, 2017, Vol. 55, No.2, 714-735.  

"The Unitary Elasticity Property in a Monocentric City with Negative Exponential Population Density"Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, Vol. 62, 1-11. 


WORKING PAPERS

"The Long Run Effects of Uber on Public Transit, Sprawl, Energy Consumption, and Carbon Emissions".

"The Effect of the Shared Economy on Crime: Evidence from Airbnb", (With Sergio Garate and Anthony Pennington-Cross).

"The Urban Equilibrium Effects of Electric Vehicle Tax Credits", (With William Larson).


RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

"Government Policies Mitigate the Effect of Telework on Urban Spatial Structure", (With David Agrawal).

"Oil Price and Electric Cars", (With Xiaohan Ma).

"The Effects of Electric Cars on Traffic Congestion and the Environment in China", (With Chen Song)

“Need for Speed: China’s HSR and its Spatial Impacts”, (with Kuang Chun).