I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas and Affiliate Faculty in the Anuradha and Vikas Sinha Department of Data Science. I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University in 2014. I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and I have been a Special Sworn Status researcher with the U.S. Census Bureau since 2021.
My research fields are real estate and urban economics, household finance and labor economics. My research examines housing and families: how housing markets and policies shape household decisions and economic outcomes. I study how housing price dynamics, housing costs, and housing wealth affect household finance, fertility, labor market outcomes, and economic inequality, using restricted Census microdata and quasi-experimental methods. I also examine housing policies, including bank deregulation, land use regulation, rent control, and property taxes, and their broader effects on household welfare and the economy.
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- 2026 Present at the University of Auckland Property Seminar, the Dallas Applied Micro Accelerator Group Seminar, and the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting in fall 2026.
- 2026 Present at Seoul National University ("Housing Affordability and Demographic Dynamics") in fall 2026.
- 2026 Named Affiliate Faculty in the Anuradha and Vikas Sinha Department of Data Science at UNT.
- 2026 Presented at the ASSA Annual Meeting (AREUEA and Society of Government Economists sessions) and the SOLE Annual Meeting.
- 2025 "Does Rent Regulation Affect Tenant Unemployment? Evidence from New York City" (with Hanchen Jiang and Luis Quintero) appeared in the Journal of Urban Economics.
- 2025 Joined the editorial board of International Studies of Economics, and presented at the Urban Institute Housing Finance Policy Center.
- 2025 Received an Early Career Research Award from the W.E. Upjohn Institute (with Hanchen Jiang) and a grant from the Institute for Humane Studies (with Yang Zhou).
- 2025 Began teaching Economics of Inequality and Discrimination at UNT.