Research

Working Papers 

• "Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Transition: A Nearest Neighbor Approach" (2022). NBER WP #30487 (with P.Bayer, B. McCartney, J, Orellana-Li, and C. S. Zhang, Resubmitted, American Economic Review

• "Neighborhood Trajectory and Upward Mobility" (2022). with B. Hardy, new version soon [email for draft]

• “Local Childhood Context and IntergenerationalMobility", (2021). with  B. Hardy and E. Ipkebe, prepared for RSF: The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences issue on Growing Up in Rural Areas, new version [email for draft]

• "Sorting, Neighborhood Quality, and the EITC: Evidence from DC"  with B. Hardy and D.Muhammed, new version soon [email for draft]

• "Sorting, Entry Intensity, and Price Responses," new version soon [email for draft]

• "Demographic Change and Housing Price Dynamics: Evidence from Matched Housing Transactions," under revision

Scholarly Publications

• "The Evolution of Charter School Quality," (2020). NBER WP #20645, Economica  w /P. Baude., E. Hanushek, G. Phelan, and S. Rivkin

• “The Evolution of Black Neighborhoods Since Kerner,” (2018). RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of Social Sciences (w/ B. Hardy)

• “Academic Probation, Student Performance and Strategic Course Taking,” (2018). Economic Inquiry  (w/ J, Cline. B. Ost, and J. Qureshi)

• “Local Violence, Student Performance, and School Accountability,” (2017).  AEA Papers and Proceedings  (w/ J. Schiman and M. Wachala)

• "Racial and Ethnic Price Differentials in the Housing Market" (2017). Journal of Urban Economics  (w/ P. Bayer, F. Ferreira, and R. McMillan)

• "Location Matters: Historical Segregation and Intergenerational Inequality," (2017). Economics Letters  (w/ R. Andrews, B. Hardy, and  T. Logan)

• "Does the EITC Buffer Against Neighborhood Transition: Evidence from Washington DC" (2016). American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 106(5): pp. 360 - 362. online appendix (w/ L. Brown-Robertson, B. Hardy, and D. Muhammad)

Select Ongoing Projects

• "Local EITC Expansions and Taxable Income Responses" w/ B. Hardy and D. Muhammed

• “Valuing Amenities Using High Frequency Data: Information Content of Crime Data” (2019). w/ P. Bayer and E. Jardim)