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)Media references: White House CEA blog.
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)Zoning and segregation in urban economic history (with Allison Shertzer and Randy Walsh)
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 74, 103652. (Download)Trade competition and migration: Evidence from the quartz crisis
Journal of International Economics, 2022, 138, 103653. (Download)Replication files
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.