David H. Buller

Visiting Assistant Professor in Economics

Haverford College

I am an applied microeconomist interested in urban, public, labor, and development economics. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in August 2026. My research primarily focuses on how place-based policy, firm location, commuting patterns, and migration shape the geography of economic opportunity and affect labor market outcomes of local populations. I give particular attention to the distributional impacts on disadvantaged workers and communities. I use novel data and spatial processing alongside methodologies such as synthetic control, nested propensity score matching, and instrumental variables to assess the causal effects of policy and worker movement.

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