Research

Working Papers

“Affordable Housing and Public Safety” with Matthew Ross and Aria Golestani

“Source of Income Discrimination and the Housing Choice Voucher Program”

Publications

“Measuring Take-up of the California EITC with State Administrative Data” (2023) with John Iselin and Matthew Unrath; accepted for publication in the Journal of Public Economics.

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“Driver’s Licenses for Unauthorized Immigrants and Auto Insurance” (2021) with Brandyn Churchill and Bing Yang Tan in Contemporary Economic Policy 39(1):107-125.

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“The Effect of E-Verify Laws on Crime” (2021) with Brandyn Churchill, Andrew Dickinson, and Joseph J. Sabia in ILR Review 75(5): 1294-1320.

“Detecting Community Response to Water Quality Violations using Bottled Water Sales” (2019) with Maura Allaire, Shuyan Zheng, and Upmanu Lall in PNAS 116(42): 20917-20922.

“Minimum Cash Wages, Tipped Restaurant Workers, and Poverty” (2018) with Joseph J. Sabia and Richard V. Burkhauser in Industrial Relations 57(4): 637-670.

Other Projects

“The California Children Who May Miss the 2021 Federal Child Tax Credit” (2021) policy brief written with Elsa Augustine, Aparna Ramesh and Matt Unrath for California Policy Lab.

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Media coverage: ABC

“The Public Notification Rule and Home Prices: How Do Consumers Respond to Information About the Quality of Drinking Water?”