Working papers and selected works in progress

Shutting down Japantown: The effects of WWII internment on Japanese-American enclaves (with Martin Saavedra)

Revisions requested, Journal of Economic History

(NBER Working Paper)

Zoning and the American suburb (with Ryan Gallagher and Allison Shertzer)

Revisions requested, Journal of Political Economy

(FRB Philadelphia Working Paper)

Municipal socialism in the United States, 1900-1940 (with James Siodla)


Refereed publications

Racial and ethnic representation in local government (with Brian Beach, Daniel Jones, and Randy Walsh)

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy., 2024, 16(2), pp. 1-36. (Download) (Appendix) (Journal link) (Replication files)

Trade competition and migration: Evidence from the quartz crisis

Journal of International Economics, 2022, 138, 103653. (Download) (Replication files) (Trade Talks podcast)

Zoning and segregation in urban economic history (with Allison Shertzer and Randy Walsh)

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 74, 103652. (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: Institutional hysteresis and durable capital in Seattle, 1920-2015

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 73, pp. 155-169. (Download)

Zoning and the economic geography of cities (with Allison Shertzer and Randy Walsh)

Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 105, pp. 20-39. (Download)

Complementarity and identification

Econometric Theory, 2017, 33(5), pp. 1154-1185. (Download)

Danger zone: Land use and the geography of neighborhood crime

Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 100, pp. 104-119. (Download) (LSE's USAPP blog)

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)


Other publications

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)