Research Interests: Housing affordability, homelessness, real estate finance, construction costs, urban development, segregation, income inequality, monetary policy, mortgage markets, mortgage-backed securitization, health care finance, health information privacy, genetics databases
Recent Publications: “A Cost Decomposition of Break-Even Rents for New Multifamily Housing Development,” (with Michael D. Eriksen). Forthcoming at Journal of Housing Economics. “CDBG-DR, Rental Requirements, and Rental Market Impacts,” (with Brian An, Rachel Drew, Andrew Jakabovics, Jenny Moody, and Seva Rodnyansky). Forthcoming at Cityscape. “Who Owns America? A Methodology for Identifying Landlords’ Ownership Scale and the Implica- tions for Targeted Code Enforcement,” (with Brian Y. An, Andrew Jakabovics, Seva Rodnyansky, and Eunjee Son). Forthcoming at Journal of the American Planning Association. “The Effects of COVID-19 on Downtown Land Use: Evidence from Four U.S. Cities,” (with Nathan Hutson). Forthcoming at Journal of Urban Affairs. “Houston, You Have a Problem: How Large Cities Accommodate More Housing,” (with Christian L. Redfearn). Real Estate Economics, 52(4): 1045-1074, 2024. “Hedge Funds, Systemic Risk, and the Market for Mortgage-Backed Securities.” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 47(6): 1187-1206, 2023. “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. “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. “Returns to Scale in Residential Construction: The Marginal Impact of Building Height,” (with Michael D. Eriksen), Real Estate Economics, 50(2): 534-564, 2022. Keeping Races in Their Places: The Dividing Lines That Shaped the American City, Routledge, 2021. “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. “A Rising Tide Drowns Unstable Boats: How Inequality Creates Homelessness,” (with Thomas Hugh Byrne and Benjamin F. Henwood), The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 693(1): 28-45, 2021. “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. “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. “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. “Oil at Risk: Political Violence and Accelerated Carbon Extraction in the Middle East and North Africa,” (with Ryan K. Merrill), Energy Economics, 92: 104935, 2020. “Breaking Down Silos to Improve the Health of Older Adults: The Case for Medicare to Cover Home Safety Renovations,” (with Richard K. Green and Patricia F. Harris), Ageing Research Reviews, 62: 101120, 2020. “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. “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 Shachar, and Barbara J. Evans, Cambridge University Press, 2019. “Fast-Forward to the Frightening Future: How the 21st Century Cures Act Accelerates Technological Innovation...at Unknown Risk to Us All,” (with Arnold J. Rosoff), American Journal of Law & Medicine 44: 253-268, 2018. “Finding Resources to Uplift Ordinary People (RUOPs),” (with Bruce S. Jansson), in Reducing In- equality: 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, 2018. “When the Invisible Hand Isn’t a Firm Hand: Disciplining Markets That Won’t Discipline Them- selves,” (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. “Employers and Health Insurance Under the Affordable Care Act,” (with Arnold J. Rosoff), Annals of Health Law, 24(2): 470-513, 2015. Letter to the One Percent, Lulu Press Inc., 2013. “Booms and Busts in Real Estate,” (with Susan M. Wachter), Wharton Real Estate Review, 15(1): 72-77, 2011.