Peer-Reviewed Publications

[1] Does Rent Control Increase Tenant Unemployment? (with Luis Quintero and Xi Yang), September 2025, Journal of Urban Economics. [Preprint]

[2] Housing Affordability and Rent Control: The Case of Elderly Renters (with Xun Bian and Ruoyu Chen), Forthcoming, Urban Studies.  [Preprint]

[3] Making the Most of Coresident Data: Credible Evidence on Intergenerational Mobility with Sibling Correlation (with Nazmul Ahsan, Shahe Emran, and Forhad Shilpi), April 2025, Journal of Development Economics.  [Preprint]

[4] Do Immigrants Equally Benefit from Rent Control? (with Xun Bian and Ruoyu Chen), January 2025, Real Estate Economics.  [Preprint]

[5] Measuring the Value of Rent Stabilization and Understanding its Implications for Racial Inequality: Evidence from New York City (with Ruoyu Chen and Luis Quintero), November 2023, Regional Science and Urban Economics.  [Preprint]

[6] Beyond Particulate Matter: New Evidence on the Causal Effects of Air Pollution on Mortality (with Maoyong Fan and Maigeng Zhou), September 2023, Journal of Health Economics.  [Preprint]

Working Papers

[7] Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India (with Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi),  Minor R&R, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.  [Preprint] | First Version 2021/03

[8] Polluted Air, Troubled Minds: The Impact of Air Pollution on Mental Health in the United States (with Maoyong Fan, Chang Liu, and Yuhang Pan). [Preprint] | First Version 2024/08

[9] Growing Up Together: Sibling Correlation, Parental Influence, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Developing Countries (with Nazmul Ahsan, Shahe Emran, Qingyang Han, and Forhad Shilpi). [Preprint] | First Version 2022/07

[10] Opportunity and Risk (with Nazmul Ahsan, Shahe Emran, and Forhad Shilpi).  [Preprint] | First Version 2022/06 

Selected Work-In-Progress

[11] Rent Control and Rent Overcharge (with Brent Ambrose, Xun Bian, and Ruoyu Chen)