Research

"Ghosting the Tax Authority: Fake Firms and Tax Fraud," with Dave Donaldson, Monica Singhal and Dina Pomeranz, 2023,  American Economic Review: Insights, 5(4), 427-444. [pdf]

"Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence," with Rodrigo Adão, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson and Dina Pomeranz, 2022, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(3), 1553–1614. [pdf]

“House Price Markups and Mortgage Defaults,” with William Doerner and William Larson, 2022, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 12940. [pdf]

"Counterfactual Dissimilarity: Can Changes in Demographics and Income Explain Increased Racial Integration in U.S. Cities?" with Jonathan Rothbaum, 2022, Journal of Regional Science. 62, 21-56. [pdf] 

“Public Good Provision and Property Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” with Edgar Castro and Carlos Scartascini, 2021, Journal of Public Economics , 198, 104422. [pdf] 

“The Repeat Time-On-The-Market Index,” with Benjamin Williams, 2019, Journal of Urban Economics,112, 33-49.  [pdf] 

“Racial Rent Differences in U.S. Housing Markets: Evidence from the Housing Voucher Program ,” with Dirk Early and Ed Olsen, 2019, Journal of Regional Science, 59, 669-700.  [pdf]

“Long-Term Impacts of Exposure to High Temperatures on Human Capital and Economic Productivity,” with Ram Fishman and Jason Russ, 2019, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 93, 221-238. [pdf] 

“Pollution or Crime? The effect of Driving Restrictions on Criminal Activity,” with Arun Malik and Andrea Lopez, 2018, Journal of Public Economics, 164, 50-69.  [pdf]

 “Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement,” with Dina Pomeranz and Monica Singhal, 2017, AEJ: Applied Economics, 9(2), 144–164. [pdf]

 “Counterfactual Spatial Distributions,” with Jonathan Rothbaum, 2016, Journal of Regional Science, 56(5), 868-894. [pdf]

“Driving Restrictions that Work? Quito's Pico y Placa Program,” with Arun Malik and Yiseon Yoo, 2016, Canadian Journal of Economics, 49(4), 1536-1568 . [pdf]

 “Can Tightness in the Housing Market Help Predict Subsequent Home Price Appreciation? Evidence from the US and the Netherlands,” with Erik de Wit and William Larson, 2015, Real Estate Economics, 43, 609-651. [pdf]

“A panel of interarea price indices for all areas in the United States 1982–2012,” with Dirk Early and Edgar Olsen, 2014, Journal of Housing Economics, 26, 81–93. [pdf] [panel]

“Sticky floors and glass ceilings in Latin America,” with Néstor Gandelman and Virginia Robano, 2014, Journal of Economic Inequality,12(3), 339-361. [pdf]

“School Quality and Information Disclosure: Evidence from the Housing Market,” with Stephanie Cellini and Richard Green, 2013, Economic Inquiry, 51(3), 1809–1828. [pdf]

“To Sell or Not to Sell: Measuring the Heat of the Housing Market,” 2013, Real Estate Economics, 41(2), 310-346. [pdf]   (Working paper’s title: “To Sell or Not to Sell: List Price, Transaction Price and Marketing Time in the Housing Market”)

“Testing for Fraud in the Residential Mortgage Market: How much did Early-Payment-Defaults Overpay for Housing?” 2013, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 47(1), 36-64. [pdf]    (Working paper’s title: “Fools or Crooks: Testing for Fraud in the Residential Mortgage Market”) 

“Public Information and Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” with Shahe Emran, 2012, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 94(4), 860-877. [pdf]     (Working paper’s title: “Public Information and Household Expectations in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”)  

“An Empirical Stationary Equilibrium Search Model of the Housing Market,” 2012, International Economic Review, 53(1), 203-234 [pdf] (Working paper’s title: “An Empirical Two-sided Equilibrium Search Model of the Real Estate Market”)  

“Are Homes Hot or Cold Potatoes? The Distribution of Marketing Time in the Housing Market,” with Jaren Pope, 2012, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42(1-2), 189-197.  

“Measuring the Biases in Self-Reported Disability Status: Evidence from Aggregate Data,” with Naoko Akashi, Bruce Dembling and Steven Stern, 2011, Applied Economics Letters, 18(11), 1053-1060.  

“Alternative Measures of Homeownership Gaps Across Segregated Neighborhoods,” with Anthony Yezer, 2009, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 39(5), 542-552. [pdf] 

“Efficient Delivery of Subsidies to the Poor: Improving the Design of a Cash Transfer Program in Ecuador,” with Juan Ponce, 2009, Journal of Development Economics, 90(2), 276–284. [pdf]

“The Effects of Different Types of Housing Assistance on Earnings and Employment,” with Edgar Olsen, Catherine Tyler, and Jonathan King, 2005, Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 8(2). [pdf]

“Explaining Attrition in the Housing Voucher Program,” with Edgar Olsen and Scott Davis, 2005, Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 8(2). [pdf]

"Misallocation in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries", with Dave Donaldson, Monica Singhal and Dina Pomeranz, 2023, NBER WP  31311, Revise and Resubmit,  American Economic Review. [pdf]

"What Do Hedonic House Price Estimates Tell Us When CAP Rates Vary?" with Anthony Yezer, IIEP WP# 2021-03. [pdf]

"Turn Off the Faucet: Solving Excess Water Consumption with Individual Meters," with Ivette Contreras and Carlos Scartascini, IDB-WP-1152, Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. [pdf]

“Information and Real Estate Transactions: The Effects of Pictures and Virtual Tours on Home Sales.”  [pdf]

“Are Sunday Babies Doomed for Life? Measuring the Sunday-Born Achievement Gap in Ecuador,” with Gabriela Aparicio and Shahe Emran, Institute for International Economic Policy Working Paper No. 2013-02. [pdf]

“Do Cheaters Bunch? Profit Taxes, Withholding Rates and Tax Evasion in a Developing Country,” with Ana Rivadeneira and Shahe Emran, 2011. [pdf]

“Taxes, Prisons, and CFOs: The Effects of Increased Punishment on Corporate Tax Compliance in Ecuador,” with Gabriela Aparicio and Shahe Emran, 2010. [pdf]

“Information Technology and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ecuador,” with Mercedes Onofa and Juan Ponce, 2011. [pdf]

“How Desperate are Desperate Sellers? Asking Price Changes and Marketing Outcomes.” 

“Search, Matching and Mortgage Default.” 

“Can Online Traffic Predict Real Estate Market Outcomes?” 

“Visual Information and Online Traffic in Real Estate Listings.”