Research
Work in Progress
What Does Ecommerce Mean for Retail in Cities?
joint with Rachel Meltzer and Erica Moszkowski
Working Papers
The Perils and Promise of Living Together: Condominiums in the Urban Landscape
joint with Bryan Stuart and Lu Han
Academic Publications
Infrastructure Costs
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 15(2) April 2023.
joint with Zach Liscow
Media coverage:
Bloomberg,
Brookings,
Pedestrian Observations,
The Week,
Construction Dive,
Engineering News Record,
Forbes,
Bloomberg Opinion,
Economist,
Christian Science Monitor ,
Vox,
George Will in the Washington Post,
Claremont Review of Books,
Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post,
Reason Magazine,
Ezra Klein's NY Times podcast.
Replication
package
joint with Byron Lutz
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016 8(3), 69-105.
Previously titled “Sclerosis of the City”
Written up in the
Washington Post and on the American Economic Association
websitejoint with Yosh Halberstam and Justin Phillips
National Tax Journal, June 2016 69(2), 315-352.
Published as a Lincoln Institute for Land Policy Working Paper
Data and documentation are available here.
Article in
Land Lines describing this for an audience of urban planners and other practitioners.
Article in State Tax Notes, November 16, 2009, describing findings for lawyers and tax professionals
Joint with Maxim Sinitsyn
Housing Policy Debate, 2014 24 (1), 119-171.
Joint with William Strange
Journal of Public Economics, 2011 95 (11-12), 1358-1372.
Joint with Maxim Sinitsyn and Justin Phillips
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011 3 (1), 1-24.
Appendix Joint with Rachel Meltzer
in The Changing Landscape of Local Public Revenues, Cambridge: Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 2010.
Joint with Justin Phillips
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2010 26 (1), 243-264.
Journal of Public Economics, 2008 92 (1-2), 388-406.
Appendix
Invited comments on Ingrid Ellen, et al, “The Impact of Business Improvement Districts on Property Values: Evidence from New York City”
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2007, 32-35.
Review of Policy Research, 2006 23 (6), 1219-1233.
Other Writing
Working From Density
joint with Philip Hoxie and Stan Veuger
AEI Economic Perspectives, October 2023.
Other Media