Publications
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The Lasting Impact of Historical Residential Security Maps on Experienced Segregation
(with Daniel Aaronson, Daniel Hartley and Bhashkar Mazumder). Real Estate Economics. forthcoming.
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Parental Involvement and Neighborhood Quality: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago
Review of Economics of the Household. 2022.​
High Schools and Educational Mobility
(with Jason Fletcher). Review of Social Stratification and Mobility. 2021.
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Trends and Patterns in Intergenerational Mobility in Education
(with Jason Fletcher). Journal of Human Capital. 2019.​
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​Working Papers
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Gasoline Prices and Income Disparities in Daily Travel Patterns
(with Noli Brazil). Under review at Nature Cities.
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We study the effect of gas price fluctuations on neighborhood inequality in mobility behavior. Using aggregated cell phone geolocation data, we describe mobility at the neighborhood level using the total volume of outgoing travel, the mean home-destination distance, and the mean destination neighborhood income. Focusing on 10 major U.S. cities and the time period March 2018 -- June 2023, we describe inequality in each of these measures between high-income and low-income neighborhoods, before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that inequality in travel volume and mean distance increased temporarily during the pandemic. Merging mobility data with city gas prices, we estimate how the effect of changing gas price on travel behavior differs across neighborhoods by income. We document a significant difference between the pre- and post-pandemic periods: During the pre-pandemic period, rising gas prices result in slightly reduced inequality in outgoing travel volume. This pattern vanishes during the pandemic and eventually reverses in the post-pandemic period. For a larger sample of cities, we analyze the short-run impact of changes to state gas tax rates. Using synthetic control methods, we find that sufficiently large increases in the gas tax rate have measurable effects on travel volume inequality. However, the direction of these effects is inconsistent and likely depends on local factors.
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​Work in Progress
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Local Air Pollution and Mobility Patterns in U.S. Cities
(with Lopamudra Chakraborty)
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