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.

Taming the Growth Machine: The Long-Run Consequences of Federal Urban Planning Assistance (Job Market Paper, with Bressler)

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We identify how a 1960s federal intervention to promote urban planning sowed the seeds of America's housing supply problem.

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We detect where minimum lot sizes shifts density across all major U.S. metros to reevaluate how restrictive zoning changes racial composition.

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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.

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