Academic Journal Articles
“Our Academic Productivity After the Council of Economic Advisers” (with Richard V. Burkhauser and Casey B. Mulligan), Econ Journal Watch, 2024, 21(2): 437-449.
“Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?” (with Naomi Feldman), Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024, 38(3): 113-136.
“Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty Since 1963 Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure,” (with Richard V. Burkhauser, James Elwell and Jeff Larrimore), Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132(1): 1-47.
“The Effect of Elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure on Government Program Eligibility and Spending,” B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2023.
“JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Housing Assistance Programs,” (with Amelia Irvine), Journal of Urban Economics, 2023, 136: 103572.
“The Size and Census Coverage of the U.S. Homeless Population,” (with Bruce D. Meyer and Angela Wyse), Journal of Urban Economics, 2023, 136: 103559.
“The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 Among Single Parent Families,” (with Bruce D. Meyer and Derek Wu), American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112: 345-350.
“Policies to Help the Working Class in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Lessons from the Great Recession,” (with Richard V. Burkhauser and Douglas Holtz-Eakin), The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 695(1): 314-330.
“The Geography of Unsheltered Homelessness in the City: Evidence from ‘311’ Calls in New York,” (with Grace Finley), Journal of Regional Science 2020, 60(4): 628-652.
“When Warm and Cold Don’t Mix: The Implications of Climate for the Determinants of Homelessness,” (with David Lucas), Journal of Housing Economics, 2018, 41: 45-56.
“Social Ties and the Incidence of Homelessness,” (with Claire Rossi-de Vries), Housing Policy Debate, 2018, 28(4): 592-608.
“The Impact of Permanent Supportive Housing on Homeless Populations,” Journal of Housing Economics, 2017, 35: 69-84.
Book Chapters
“The Targeting of Place-Based Policies: The New Markets Tax Credit Versus Opportunity Zones,” (with David Coyne, Naomi Feldman, and Craig Johnson), In Cecile Gaubert, Gordon H. Hanson, and David Neumark (ed.) Economics of Place-Based Policies, University of Chicago Press, Forthcoming.
“Fighting In-Work Poverty: The Minimum Wage Versus In-Work Benefits,” (with Richard V. Burkhauser and Joseph J. Sabia), In Stephane Carcillo and Stefano Scarpetta (ed.) Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
“How to Better Measure Poverty: The Comprehensive Income Dataset,” (with Bruce D. Meyer). Brookings Institution Press, Next Generation Evidence: Strategies for More Equitable Social Impact, 2023.
“Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers: 1959-2016,” (with James Elwell and Richard V. Burkhauser), In Diana Furchtgott-Roth (ed.) United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, Oxford University Press, 2020.
“Improving our Federal Response to Homelessness,” In Robert Doar (ed.) A Safety Net that Works: Improving Federal Programs for Low-Income Americans, American Enterprise Institute, 2017.
Working Papers
“Coverage, Counter-Cyclicality, and Targeting of Work Requirement Waivers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” (with Richard V. Burkhauser, Thomas O’Rourke and Angela K. Rachidi), NBER Working Paper, 2024.
“The Distribution of Social Capital Across Individuals and its Relationship to Income,” (with Thomas O’Rourke and Scott Winship), IZA Discussion Paper No. 17257, 2024.
“Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled? Income Growth over Five Generations of Americans,” (with Jeff Larrimore), Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 2024.
“The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Commercial Investment and Economic Activity,” (with Naomi Feldman), AEI Economic Policy Working Paper, 2023.
“The Understated Housing Shortage in the United States,” (with Hugo Dante), IZA Discussion Paper No. 15447, 2022
“The Anti-Poverty, Targeting, and Labor Supply Effects of Replacing a Child Tax Credit with a Child Allowance,” (with Bruce D. Meyer, Matthew Stadnicki and Derek Wu). NBER Working Paper No. 29366, 2022.
“The Impact of Social Disorder on Crime: The Case of Homelessness,” (with Grace Finley), AEI Economics Working Paper, 2017.
“A Price Theory of Altruistic Identity,” AEI Economics Working Paper, 2016.
“Designing Performance-Based Incentives when Service Providers Compete for Users to Help,” AEI Economics Working Paper, 2016.
Policy Papers
“Has Income Growth Between Generations of Americans Stalled?” Cato Institute Research Briefs in Economic Policy No. 391, July 10, 2024.
“An Early Look at the Child Tax Credit Changes in the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024,” (with Scott Winship), AEI Perspectives on Opportunity, March 28, 2024.
“The Work Incentive and Employment Effects of Eliminating the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Income Requirement,” (with Angela Rachidi, Matt Weidinger, and Scott Winship), American Enterprise Institute, January 19, 2024.
“Changing the Official Poverty Measure would Help Rich States and Hurt Poor States,” COSM Commentary, October 5. 2023.
“Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription,” City Journal, May 5, 2023.
“The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 Among Single-Parent Families,” (with Bruce D. Meyer and Derek Wu), Cato Institute Research Briefs in Economic Policy No. 318, February 1, 2023.
“The Size and Census Coverage of the US Homeless Population,” (with Bruce D. Meyer and Angela Wyse), VoxEU, 2022.
“The HOUSES Act: Addressing the National Housing Shortage by Building on Federal Land,” (with Hugo Dante), Joint Economic Committee, 2022.
“State Inflation Tracker,” (with Jackie Benson and Kole Nichols), Joint Economic Committee, 2022.
“The Minimum Wage Versus the Earned Income Tax Credit for Reducing Poverty,” (with Richard V. Burkhauser), IZA World of Labor: Evidence-based Policymaking, 2021, 153(2): 1-10.
“Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure,” (with Richard V. Burkhauser, Bruce D. Meyer, Matt Weidinger, and Angela Rachidi), American Enterprise Institute, 2021.
“Introducing a New Dataset to Better Understand Homelessness in the US,” (with Bruce D. Meyer and Angela Wyse), VoxEU, 2021.
“Barriers to Work and Social Enterprise: Estimating the Target Population,” American Enterprise Institute, 2017.
“Toward a More Efficient Housing Safety Net,” AEI Economic Perspectives, 2017.
“Technology and Innovation in Homelessness Policy,” 8th International Conference on Social Informatics: Workshop on Urban Homelessness and Wise Cities, 2016.
“The Role of Community in Economical Rental Housing by Design for Communities that Work,” AEI International Center on Housing Risk, 2016.
“Pay for Performance: A New Solution for Vulnerable Homeless Adults,” AEI Economic Perspectives, 2016.
“A Tech Revolution for the Homeless: Taking Big Data to the Streets,” American Enterprise Institute, 2016.
“On Utah’s 91 Percent Reduction in Chronic Homelessness,” American Enterprise Institute, 2016.
“Supplemental Security Income and the Tax on Shared Housing,” Tax Notes, 2016.
“How Safety Net Programs Tax the Sharing of Housing,” Tax Notes and State Tax Notes, 2015.
“What Should We Do About Homeless Families? Comments on the Family Options Study,” AEI Economic Perspectives, 2015.
“Street Homelessness: A Disappearing Act?” AEI Economic Perspectives, 2015.
Congressional Testimony
“The Consequences of Redrawing the Poverty Line,” United States House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Work and Welfare, October 24, 2023.
“Correcting the Record on the Effects of Replacing the Child Tax Credit with a Child Allowance,” United States Senate, Committee on Finance, Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, July 13, 2023.