Published Research

Are friends electric? Valuing the social costs of power lines using house prices. With Steve Gibbons (LSE) [CEP working paper] 

Energy Economics 134, 107554, (2024) 

Media coverage: The Guardian, Telegraph, BBC (Panorama), Daily Express    

Income is More Protective Against Pain in More Equal Countries. With Lucía Macchia (City, University of London) & Nick Powdthavee (NTU). [Open Access]

Social Science & Medicine 333, 116181 , (2023)

Crime risk and housing values: Evidence from the Gun Offender Registry. With Thao Le (GSU).

Journal of Urban Economics 134, 103526 , (2023)

Media coverage: Philadelphia Inquiry

Covid-19 restriction policies and shopping streets. With HRA Koster, Jos van Ommeren & Nander Bras (VU Amsterdam) [CEPR working paper][Open Access Version]

PLoS ONE 17(7): e0267160 , (2022) 

Accident Externality of Driving: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge. With Jos van Ommeren (VU Amsterdam). [Ungated Version]

Journal of Economic Geography 22(3), 547–580, (2022)

The Urban Crime and Heat Gradient in High and Low Poverty Areas. With Matthew Kahn (USC) and Kilian Heilmann (Lyft). [Ungated Version] 

Journal of Public Economics 197, 104408, (2021) 

Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Los Angeles Times (Opinion piece) , Sciencenews

The Cost of Traffic: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge [Ungated Version][Older CEP Version]

Journal of Urban Economics 121, 103302, (2021) 

Media Coverage: City AM, Wall Street Journal, Forbes

Blog: CEP/SERC 

Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Canals Using House Prices. With Steve Gibbons (LSE) and Peng Cong (Peking University) [Ungated Version][Open Access]

Land Economics 97(4), 858-874, (2021)

Media Coverage: LSE Business Review

Sponsor Ownership in Asian REITs. With Masaki Mori. 

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 55, 265–287, (2017)

Debt Raising and Refinancing by Japanese REITs: Information Content in a Credit Crunch. With Masaki Mori, Seow Eng Ong and Joseph Ooi. 

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 53, 141–161, (2016)

Completed Research

The economic implications of map distortion: evidence from the housing market. With Eugene Or (NTU). (Latest Version)(Revisions requested: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy) 

Spatially Heterogeneous Effects of Publicity in the Restaurant Industry. With Kim Hayoung (KIPF & UCL) (Latest Version) (Revisions requested: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy).

From Brown to Green? The Displacement Effect of Coal-fired Power Plant Closures in China. With Fan Yi (NUS) and Qiuxia Gao (NUS) (Latest Version) (Revised and resubmitted: Journal of Environmental Economics & Management) 

Rising temperature and physical pain: Evidence on Over 2 Million U.S. Residents , With Lucía Macchia (City, University of London) &  Nick Powdthavee (NTU) (Revisions requested:  Ecological Economics)

Early experiences of parental warmth reduce pain interference in later life: Evidence from a quasi-experimental approach, With  Lucía Macchia (City, University of London) &  Nick Powdthavee (NTU) 

The Role of Social Connections in the Racial Segregation of US Cities, (Latest version) With Andreas Diemer (SOFI) & Tanner Regan (GWU) (Submitted)

Do Speed Cameras save lives? (Latest Version),  With Gabriel Ahlfeldt (LSE) [CEP working paper]

Media Coverage: CityCommentary, RoadSafetyGB, Conversation , YahooNews, TransportXtra, Financial Times

Blog: LSE

Temperature Variability and Natural Disasters. (Latest version)  With Andrew Oswald (Warwick), Nick Powdthavee (NTU) and Aatishya Mohanty (NTU). 

Ongoing Research

Nudging Ride-hailing Platform Users to Book a Ride using Low-Fare Pop-ups: A Large Scale Natural Field Experiment. With Eko Riyanto (NTU) and Ruike Zhang (Grab)

Beauty Pays for Crime? Evidence from Judicial Sentencing. With Jonathan Yeo (NTU) and Eko Riyanto (NTU)

Accident externalities of Electric Vehicles. With Jos van Ommeren (VU) and Junjie Lin (SYSU)