Publications
Race, ethnicity, and discriminatory zoning (with Allison Shertzer and Randy Walsh)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8(3), pp. 217-246. (Download)Replication files
Danger zone: Land use and the geography of neighborhood crime
Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 100, pp. 104-119. (Download)Media references: CityLab, Planetizen. My non-technical writeup for LSE's USAPP blog.
Complementarity and identification
Econometric Theory, 2017, 33(5), pp. 1154-1185. (Download)Zoning and the economic geography of cities (with Allison Shertzer and Randy Walsh)
Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 105, pp. 20-39. (Download)Media references: Houston Chronicle, CityLab.
The long-run impact of zoning: Institutional hysteresis and durable capital in Seattle, 1920-2015
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 73, pp. 155-169. (Download)A machine learning approach to improving occupational income scores (with Martin Saavedra)
Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 75, 101304. (Download)LIDO score data
Replication files
The long-run impact of zoning in U.S. cities
In Measuring the Effectiveness of Real Estate Regulation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Ronit Levine-Schnur, Springer, 2020. (Link)Working papers and selected works in progress
Minority representation in local government (with Brian Beach, Daniel Jones, and Randy Walsh)
Revise & resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. (Download)Media references: Boston Globe, National Affairs.