Assistant Professor of Real Estate
Research Areas
Urban economics and real estate, public economics
Current Projects
Impact of the housing bust on household mobility; how much households value local amenities, such as school quality; are local public goods efficiently provided?; political economy of local jurisdictions, and its effect on economic outcomes.
Representative Publications
(with P. Bayer and R. McMillan)
“A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods”, Journal of Political Economy vol. 115(4) (2007).
(with J. Gyourko)
“Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 124(1) (2009).
(with S. Cellini and J. Rothstein)
“The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming).
(with C. Dobkin)
“Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?”, Economics of Education Review (forthcoming).
(with J. Gyourko and J. Tracy)
“Housing Busts and Household Mobility”, Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming).
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2004; MA, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1999; BA, State University of Maringá, Brazil, 1997
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
National Tax Association 2004 Outstanding Dissertation Award
Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2004-present.
Other Positions
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008- present
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve of Philadelphia, 2006-present
Research Assistant, Public Policy Institute of California, 2000-2002.
