Tom Cui | Personal Webpage

Welcome to my website! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NYU Furman Center.

I study topics in public and urban economics, especially how policy decisions past and present impact today's U.S. housing markets.

I am on the 2024-2025 job market!
Scroll below for my latest research, or check out my CV here.

Density Zoning Interacts With Racial Diversity: New Evidence From National Data (Job Market Paper, with Been)

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We detect regulation-induced shifts in density across major U.S. metros to reevaluate how restrictive zoning causes racial diversity.

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Using a first-even national panel of minimum lot sizes, I study how the Great Migration caused restrictive suburban zoning.

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We build a heterogeneous agent model that explains when temporary durable subsidies work and work best.

Draft available on request.

I estimate how sensitive households are to price and leverage when making home remodeling decisions.

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