Working Papers

The Effect of Source of Income Policies on Recipients of Non-Voucher Categories of Protected Income

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

Publications

“Drinking Water Contamination and Home Prices: Evidence from California” (2025) in Applied Economics Letters.

“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.

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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.

“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.

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