Appointments and Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA
Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation
Research
I work in the field of public economics. My research uses tools from public finance, labor, and trade to study the effects of public policies on firms, workers, and places.
Some of my interests include:
U.S. tax policy
Tariffs and protectionism
Place-based and local housing policies
The Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff of the Corporate Income Tax: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
with Christine Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, and Jake Mortenson. (Job Market Paper)
Revised and Resubmitted, American Economic Review.
High-End Housing and Gentrification: Evidence from a San Francisco Lottery
with Harrison Wheeler.
Neighborhood-Level Investment from the U.S. Opportunity Zone Program: Early Evidence
with Harrison Wheeler.
The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations
American Economic Review: Insights (2023)
with Pablo Fajgelbaum, Penelopi Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, and Daria Taglioni
The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2020). Lead article and editor's choice.
with Pablo Fajgelbaum, Penny Goldberg, and Amit Khandelwal
slides, replication, bibtex, vox
The TCJA and Domestic Corporate Tax Rates
Accepted, National Tax Journal (2025)
with Christine Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, and Jake Mortenson.
Heterogeneity in Corporate Tax Incidence by Worker Characteristics
AEA Papers and Proceedings (2024)
with Christine Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, and Jake Mortenson.
Where Do People Get Their News?
Economic Policy (2019).
with Andrea Prat
slides, replication, bibtex, vox,