Research

Working Papers

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

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

“Drinking Water Contamination and Home Prices: Evidence from California”

Online appendix available here.

Publications

“Measuring Take-up of the California EITC with State Administrative Data” (2023) with John Iselin and Matthew Unrath in the Journal of Public Economics 227: 105002.

Click here a policy brief on this paper from California Policy Lab

“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.

Click here for a non-technical discussion of this paper

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

“The Unintended Effects of Ban-the-Box Laws on Crime” (2021) with Brandyn Churchill, Thanh Tam Nguyen, and Joseph J. Sabia in The Journal of Law and Economics 64(4): 783-820.

“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.

Click here for highlights from this project
Media coverage: ABC