Current Research
"Does Homeownership Matter? The Long-Term Consequences of Losing a House during the Great Recession", with Heidi Artigue, Patrick Bayer, and Stephen Ross. Online Appendix. Submitted.
"Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform", with Santosh Anagol and Jonah Rexer. Online Appendix. Conditionally Accepted, AEJ Economic Policy.
"Estimating Preferences for Neighborhood Amenities Under Imperfect Information", with Maisy Wong. Revise and Resubmit, The Economic Journal.
"Does Political Partisanship Affect Housing Supply? Evidence from US Cities", with Joseph Gyourko. Online Appendix. Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Urban Economics.
"Neighborhood Choice After COVID: The Role of Rents, Amenities, and Work-From-Home", with Maisy Wong. Under Revision.
Publications
“Household Mobility, Networks, and Gentrification of Minority Neighborhoods in the US”, with Jeanna Kenney and Benjamin Smith. Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 42(S1), 2024.
“Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom Across U.S. Metropolitan Areas”, with Joseph Gyourko. Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. 105(6), 2023.
“Occupy Government: Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Sector Performance”, with Klenio Barbosa. Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 221, May 2023.
“Housing Disease and Public School Finances”, with Matthew Davis. Economics of Education Review, Vol. 88, 2022.
Leveraged: The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility, edited by Moritz Schularick, 2022. A comment on “A New Narrative of Investors, Subprime Lending” by Stefania Albanesi.
“The Role of Price Spillovers in the American Housing Boom”, with Anthony DeFusco, Wenjie Ding, and Joseph Gyourko. Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 108, November 2018, p. 72-84.
“What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High Cost Mortgages? The Role of High Risk Lenders”, with Patrick Bayer and Stephen Ross. The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 31(1), 2018, p. 175-205.
“Racial and Ethnic Price Differentials in the Housing Market”, with Patrick Bayer, Marcus Casey, and Robert McMillan. Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 102, November 2017, p. 91-105.
“The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust”, with Patrick Bayer and Stephen Ross. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 8 (1) 2016.
“Causal Inference in Urban Economics”, with Nathaniel Baum-Snow. Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, vol. 5A, May 2015. Edited by Duranton, Henderson, and Strange.
“Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors”, with Joseph Gyourko. Journal of Public Economics, April 2014, Vol. 112, p. 24-39.
“The Effect of Rising Income Inequality on Taxation and Public Expenditures: Evidence from U.S. Municipalities and School Districts, 1970-2000” with Leah Platt Boustan, Hernan Winkler, and Eric Zolt. Review of Economics and Statistics, October 2013, Vol. 95, No. 4, p. 1291-1302.
“Pop Internationalism: Has A Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?”, with Joel Waldfogel. Economic Journal, June 2013, Vol. 123, Issue 569, p. 634-664.
“Housing Busts and Household Mobility: an Update”, with Joseph Gyourko and Joseph Tracy. Economic Policy Review, Nov. 2012, vol. 18, number 3.
"Heterogeneity in Neighborhood-Level Price Growth in the U.S., 1993-2009", with Joseph Gyourko. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2012, vol. 102(3), p. 134-140.
“Preferences for Hispanic Neighborhoods” In: “Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America?”, Penn Press, 2011.
“The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design”, with Jesse Rothstein and Stephanie Cellini. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2010, vol. 125(1), p. 215-261.
“You Can Take It with You: Proposition 13 Tax Benefits, Residential Mobility, and Willingness to Pay for Housing Amenities.” Journal of Public Economics, vol. 94 (2010), p. 661-673.
“Housing Busts and Household Mobility”, with Joseph Gyourko and Joseph Tracy. Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 68(1), 2010, p. 34-45.
“Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?”, with Carlos Dobkin. Economics of Education Review, 29 (2010), p. 40-54.
“Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities”, with Joseph Gyourko. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2009, vol. 124(1), p. 349-397.
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2007. A comment on “Antitrust Implications of Home Seller Outcomes when using Flat-Fee Real Estate Agents” by Steven Levitt and Chad Syverson.
“A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods”, with Patrick Bayer and Robert McMillan. Journal of Political Economy, August 2007, vol. 115 (4), p. 588-638.
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2005. A comment on “Property Tax Limitations and Mobility: Lock-in Effect of California’s Proposition 13” by Nada Wasi and Michelle White.
Old Working Papers
“A New Look at the U.S. Foreclosure Crisis: Panel Data Evidence of Prime and Subprime Borrowers from 1997 to 2012”, with Joseph Gyourko. NBER Working Paper #21261, 2015.
“Trade, Endogenous Quality and Welfare in Motion Pictures”, with Amil Petrin and Joel Waldfogel. Working paper, 2012.
“Tiebout Sorting, Social Multipliers, and the Demand for School Quality”, with Patrick Bayer and Robert McMillan. NBER Working Paper #10871, November 2004.