Real Estate

“The Physical Legacy of Racism: How Redlining Cemented the Modern Built Environment,” (with Brian Y. An and Seva Rodnyansky), Working Paper, 2024.

“The Trajectory of Rental Housing in the Wake of Natural Disasters,” (with Brian Y. An, Andrew Jakabovics, Seva Rodnyansky, and Raphael W. Bostic), R&R at RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciencesr, 2024.

“How Long Does It Take to Build Multifamily Housing?” (with Chris Cunningham), Policy Hub Report for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2024.

“Coming Soon! A Warehouse Near You” (with Daniel Flaming, Fernando Gaytan, Juan de Lara, & Sophie Pennetier), Report for the Economic Roundtable, 2024.

Press Coverage: Random Lengths News

“CDBG-DR, Rental Requirements, and Rental Market Impacts” (with Brian An, Rachel Drew, Andrew Jakabovics, Jenny Moody, & Seva Rodnyansky), Forthcoming at Cityscape, 2024.

“A Cost Decomposition of Break-Even Rents for New Multifamily Housing Development” (with Michael D. Eriksen), Forthcoming at Journal of Housing Economics, 2024.

“Housing Supply Elasticities: A Structural Vector Autoregression Approach,” (with Christian L. Redfearn), R&R at Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024.

“Who Owns America? A Methodology for Identifying Landlords’ Ownership Scale and the Implications for Targeted Code Enforcement,” (with Brian Y. An, Andrew Jakabovics, Seva Rodnyansky, & Eunjee Son, Forthcoming at Journal of the American Planning Association, 2024.

“The Effects of COVID-19 on Downtown Land Use: Evidence from Four U.S. Cities,” (with Nathan Hutson), Forthcoming at Journal of Urban Affairs, 2024.

“Houston, You Have a Problem: How Large Cities Accommodate More Housing,” (with Christian L. Redfearn), Real Estate Economics, 52(4): 1045-1074, 2024.

“Factors Affecting Spillover Impacts of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments: An Analysis of Los Angeles,” (with Brian Y. An, Andrew Jakabovics, Jing Liu, Seva Rodnyansky, Richard Voith, Sean Zielenbach, and Raphael W. Bostic), Cityscape, 25(2), 2023.

“Small and Medium Multifamily Housing: Affordability and Availability,” (with Brian Y. An, Raphael W. Bostic, Andrew Jakabovics, and Seva Rodnyansky), Housing Studies, 37(7): 1274-1297, 2022.

“Effects of Concentrated LIHTC Development on Surrounding House Prices,” (with Richard Voith, Jing Liu, Sean Zielenbach, Andrew Jakabovics, Brian Y. An, Seva Rodnyansky, and Raphael W. Bostic), Journal of Housing Economics, 56: 101838, 2022.

Press coverage: Salon

“Returns to Scale in Residential Construction: The Marginal Impact of Building Height on Affordability,” (with Michael D. Eriksen), Real Estate Economics, 50(2): 534-564, 2022.

“A Rising Tide Drowns Unstable Boats: How Inequality Creates Homelessness,” (with Thomas Hugh Byrne and Benjamin F. Henwood), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 693(1): 28-45, 2021.

Press coverage: The Hill, The Journalist’s Resource, New York Times

“Why Are Small and Medium Multifamily Properties So Inexpensive?” (with Brian Y. An, Raphael W. Bostic, Andrew Jakabovics, and Seva Rodnyansky), Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics, 62(3): 402-422, 2021.

Blog coverage: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

“Understanding the Small and Medium Multifamily Housing Stock,” (with Brian Y. An, Raphael W. Bostic, Andrew Jakabovics, and Seva Rodnyansky), Report for Enterprise Community Partners and the USC Bedrosian Center on Governance, 2017. (short version, long version)

Press coverage: Bloomberg

“Booms and Busts in Real Estate,” (with Susan M. Wachter), Wharton Real Estate Review, 2011.

 

Finance

“Borrowing on the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Evidence from Mortgage Loan Discontinuities,” (with Gerd Welke), R&R at Journal of Banking & Finance, 2024.

“Hedge Funds, Systemic Risk, and the Market for Mortgage-Backed Securities,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, ,47(6): 1187-1206, 2023.

“Measuring the COVID-19 Financial Threat to Hospital Markets,” (with Robert I. Field), Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 58, 2021.

“Oil at Risk: Terrorism and Accelerated Carbon Extraction in the Middle East and North Africa,” (with Ryan K. Merrill), Energy Economics, 92: 104935, 2020.

“Global Forces, Local Consequences: The Role of Foreign Investment and HNWI Money in US Real Estate Markets,” Report for the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute, 2018.

Blog coverage: DOC Research Institute

“When the Invisible Hand Isn’t a Firm Hand: Disciplining Markets That Won’t Discipline Themselves,” (with Raphael W. Bostic), in Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy, edited by Lee Anne Fennell and Benjamin J. Keys, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

 

Public Policy

“Demographic Diversity of Genetic Databases Used in Alzheimer’s Disease Research,” (with Robert I. Field and Arnold J. Rosoff), Human Genetics, 142: 1215-1220, 2023.

“Am I My Cousin’s Keeper? A Proposal to Protect Relatives of Genetic Database Subjects,” (with Robert I. Field and Arnold J. Rosoff), Indiana Health Law Review, 18(1): 1-55, 2021.

Press coverage: Philadelphia Inquirer, Knowledge@Wharton

“Genetics and COVID-19: How to Protect the Susceptible,” (with Robert I. Field and Arnold J. Rosoff), Trends in Genetics, 37(2): P106-108, 2021.

Press coverage: Philadelphia Inquirer, Knowledge@Wharton

“Breaking Down Silos to Improve the Health of Older Adults: The Case for Medicare to Cover Home Safety Renovations,” (with Richard K. Green and Patrica F. Harris), Ageing Research Reviews, 62: 101120, 2020.

“The Role of Transparency in Promoting Healthy Behaviors: Pros, Cons, and Perils of Information-Sharing to Foster Personal Responsibility in Health Care,” (with Arnold J. Rosoff), in Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States: Ethics and Law, edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Schachar, and Barbara J. Evans, Cambridge University Press, 2019.

“The New Privacy Crisis: What’s Health Got to Do with It?” (with Arnold J. Rosoff), American Journal of Medicine, 132(2): 127-128, 2019.

“Finding Resources to Uplift Ordinary People (RUOPs),” (with Bruce S. Jansson), in Reducing Inequality: Addressing the Wicked Problems Across Professions and Disciplines, by Bruce S. Jansson, Cognella Academic Publishing, 2018.

“Sustainable Financing Structures for Population Health: Historical Patterns and Insights for the Future,” (with Raphael W. Bostic), in Building Sustainable Financial Structures for Population Health: Insights from Non-Health Sectors, The National Academies Press, 2017.

“Employers and Health Insurance Under the Affordable Care Act,” (with Arnold J. Rosoff), Annals of Health Law, 2015.