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 housing and urban economics, labor economics, and household finance. 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 fertility, labor market outcomes, household finance, and economic inequality, using restricted Census microdata and quasi-experimental methods. I also examine housing policies, including land use regulation, rent control, property taxes, and bank deregulation, 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 Received a Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Program Grant from CSWEP.
- 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.