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Welcome to my website! I will start in Fall 2026 as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Dakota. I am also affiliated with the NYU Furman Center.

I study how past policies and regulations shape today's housing markets.
In doing so, I uncover how we can better follow the evidence to deliver impactful housing reforms.
For more, please see my research statement.

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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Are Zoning District Borders Color Lines? How Lot Size Requirements Alter Neighborhood Racial Composition (with Been)

R&R, Journal of Urban Economics. [ PDF ]
We detect where minimum lot sizes shift density across all major U.S. metros to reevaluate how restrictive zoning changes racial composition.

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Did Race Fence Off The American City? The Great Migration and the Evolution of Exclusionary Zoning

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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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Stimulating Durable Purchases (with Berger, Turner, Zwick)

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

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