Research

Research Interests:

Public finance, urban economics, housing, applied microeconomics.

Research Interests:

Local public finance, voting, planned developments and homeowners associations, gated communities, the private provision of public goods, land-use regulation, urban transport.

Publications:

All (Economic) Politics is Local: Voting Responses to Localized Price Shocks during the Great Recession (with Rachel Meltzer). Journal of Regional Science. Link to online proof.
Homeowners Associations and City Cohesion (with Tim Salmon and Kuangli Xie), Regional Science and Urban Economics (2022), vol. 93. Link to paper.
Induced Earthquakes and House Prices: Evidence from Oklahoma (with Daniel Wetherell and Stephan Whitaker), Regional Science and Urban Economics (2018), vol. 69, p. 153-166.
An Empirical Analysis of Socio-Demographic Factors and the Mispricing of Homeowners Insurance in Florida (with Cassandra Cole, David Macpherson, Kathleen McCullough and Charles Nyce), Risk Management and Insurance Review (2015), vol. 18, no. 1, p. 1-28. Link to download paper from SSRN here.
Why and Where Do Homeowners Associations Form? (with Rachel Meltzer), Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research (2014), vol. 16, no. 3, p. 69-92.
How Are Homeowners Associations Capitalized Into Housing and Land Values? (with Rachel Meltzer), Regional Science and Urban Economics (2014), vol. 46, p. 93-102.
Do Homeowners Associations Mitigate or Aggravate Negative Spillovers from Neighboring Homeowner Distress? (with Chris Cunningham and Rachel Meltzer), Journal of Housing Economics (2014), vol. 24, p. 75-88. Also published online here.
Homeowners Associations and the Demand for Local Land Use Regulation (with Rachel Meltzer), Journal of Regional Science (2013), vol. 53, no. 3, p. 511-534.
Who Supports Portable Assessment Caps: The Role of Lock-in, Tax Share and Mobility (with Chris Cunningham), Regional Science and Urban Economics (2011), vol. 41, no. 3, p. 173-186. (If above link doesn't work, you can find it here.)
Homeowners' Associations and Their Impact on the Local Public Budget, chapter in The Changing Landscape of Local Public Revenues, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (2010).
The Incidence of the Land Use Regulatory Tax (with Keith Ihlanfeldt & Tom Mayock), Real Estate Economics (2009), vol. 37, no. 4, p. 675-704.
The Regulatory Tax and House Price Appreciation in Florida (with Keith Ihlanfeldt & Tom Mayock), Journal of Housing Economics (2009), vol. 18, p. 24-48.
The Interaction Between Public and Private Governments: An Empirical Analysis, Journal of Urban Economics (May 2008), vol. 63, no. 3, p. 885-901.
The Effect of Property Tax Limitations on Residential Private Government, National Tax Journal (March 2008), vol. 61, no. 1, p. 35-56.
Taxation Impacts on Inequality in Canada: Methodologies and Findings (with Jonathan Rhys Kesselman), chapter in Dimensions of Inequality in Canada (UBC Press, 2006).
Tax Incidence, Progressivity, and Inequality in Canada (with Jonathan Rhys Kesselman), Canadian Tax Journal (2004) vol. 52, no. 3, p. 709-789.

Working Papers and Work in Progress:

Household Debt and Local Public Finances (with Chris Cunningham and Stephan Whitaker), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Working Paper 14-31, latest version in hyperlink.
Do Private HOA Members Engage in Public Life? Evidence from Voting Behavior (with Rachel Meltzer).
How Do Homeowners Associations Affect Housing Affordability? (with Rachel Meltzer).
Voting with Your Feet or Just Voting: The Timing and Determinants of Annexation (with Chris Cunningham).

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