Interests: Labor Economics, Urban Economics, Public Economics
Working Papers
The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
with Shai Bernstein, Tim McQuade, and Beatriz Pousada
Draft: November 2018
Take-Up, Drop-Out, and Spending in ACA Marketplaces
with Michael Dickstein, Tim McQuade, and Petra Persson
Draft: May 2018
The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers
with Cody Cook, Jonathan Hall, John List, and Paul Oyer
Draft: June 2018
Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality
with Hunt Allcott, Jean-Pierre Dubé, Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky, and Molly Schnell
Revision Requested, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Draft: November 2018
Who Pays for Rent Control? Heterogeneous Landlord Response to San Francisco's Rent Control Expansion
with Tim McQuade and Franklin Qian
2019 AEA Papers and Proceedings
Draft: January 2019
Older Workers and the Gig Economy
with Cody Cook and Paul Oyer
2019 AEA Papers and Proceedings
Draft: January 2019
The Long-term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-Stakes Tests
with Petra Persson
Draft: October 2017
Published Papers
The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco with Tim McQuade and Franklin Qian
American Economic Review, forthcoming.
Who Wants Affordable Housing in their Backyard? An Equilibrium Analysis of Low Income Property Development with Tim McQuade
Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
Housing Supply Elasticity and Rent Extraction by State and Local Governments
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9(1): 74-111. 2017.
The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers' Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980-2000
American Economic Review, 106(3): 479-524. 2016. (Lead article)
Clustering, Spatial Correlations and Randomization Inference with Thomas Barrios, Guido W. Imbens, and Michal Kolesár. Journal of the American Statistical Association 107(498), 578-591, 2012.
Work in Progress
The Geography of Consumption Inequality with Enrico Moretti
Who Benefits from Rent Control? The Equilibrium Consequences of San Francisco's Rent Control Expansion with Tim McQuade and Franklin Qian. Subsumes the structural model analysis from our original paper
The Assimilation of Hispanics: Evidence from Retail Consumption with Kathryn Shaw and Francine Lafontaine
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