Research
Research Statement (September, 2023)
Working Paper
Remote Work and Consumer Cities (with Franklin Qian)
[Draft: September 24, 2024] [SSRN]
Spatial Productivity Differences and Government Rent-Seeking (with Sitian Liu)
[Draft: September 28, 2023] [SSRN]
The Effect of Working from Home on the Agglomeration Economies of Cities: Evidence from Advertised Wages (with Sitian Liu)
[Draft: August 9, 2023] [SSRN] Revision Requested: Review of Economics and Statistics
The Great Reshuffle: Residential Sorting During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Welfare Implications (with Wenli Li)
[Draft: Jan 27, 2023] [SSRN]
Publication
Conspicuous Consumption: Vehicle Purchases by Non-Prime Consumers (with Wenhua Di)
[Draft: March 11, 2024] [SSRN] Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 224, August 2024, Pages 895-914
Measuring the Value of Urban Consumption Amenities: A Time-Use Approach
[Draft: Aug 17, 2022] [SSRN] Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 132, November 2022, 103495
The Geography of Jobs and the Gender Wage Gap (with Sitian Liu)
[Draft: February 1, 2022] [SSRN] Review of Economics and Statistics - May 2024, 106(3), 872–881
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Demand for Density: Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market (with Sitian Liu)
[Draft: June 18, 2021] [SSRN] - Economics Letters, Volume 207, October 2021, 110010
The Rising Value of Time and the Origin of Urban Gentrification
[Draft: Mar 28, 2021] [SSRN] - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14(1), 402-439
Work in Progress
Are Tech Clusters Innovation Hubs or Echo Chambers?
The Misalignment of Amenity Preferences and the Welfare Implications of Spatial Sorting: A Revealed-Preference Approach (with Luigi Pistaferri)
The Value of Ethnic Enclaves: Evidence from Domestic Migration of Immigrants (with Sitian Liu)
Other articles
Texas Economic Activity Expands Modestly; Labor Market Remains Healthy (with Robert Leigh, Ana Pranger, and Mariam Yousuf)
Economic analysis and insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, May 07, 2024
New Disruption from Artificial Intelligence Exposes High-Skilled Workers (with Ana Pranger)
Southwest Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Fourth Quarter 2023
Texas Shows Signs of Slowing; Price Pressures Ease Despite Buoyant Services (with Aparna Jayashankar)
Economic analysis and insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, August 03, 2023
Recent Growth of Professional Services Jobs Favors Select Texas Counties (with Ana Pranger)
Economic analysis and insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, May 16, 2023
Texas Economy Rides Wave of Changing Technology and Diffusion of Know-How (with Laila Assanie)
Southwest Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Fourth Quarter 2022
Shift to Working from Home Diminished Large Cities’ Productivity Premium (with Sitian Liu)
Economic analysis and insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, August 30, 2022
Signs of Slowdown Growing in Texas; Price Pressures Ease (with Mytiah Caldwell)
Economic analysis and insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, August 4, 2022
Largest Texas Metros Lure Big-City, Coastal Migrants During Pandemic (with Wenli Li)
Southwest Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Fourth Quarter 2021
Texas Economy Strongly Expands Despite Supply-Chain Disruptions, Hiring Challenges (with Carlee Crocker)
Economic analysis and insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, August 5, 2021
COVID-19 Fuels Sudden, Surging Demand for Suburban Housing (with Laila Assanie)
Southwest Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Fourth Quarter 2020
Texas Rebound Likely Slowed by Renewed COVID-19 Impact on Services, Retail (with Carlee Crocker)
Economic analysis and insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, November 12, 2020
Working from Home During a Pandemic: It’s Not for Everyone
Economic analysis and insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, April 7, 2020
Gentrification Transforming Neighborhoods in Big Texas Cities
Southwest Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Fourth Quarter 2019
Texas Economy Still Growing, Though Pace Slows (with Carlee Crocker)
Economic analysis and insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, November 7, 2019