Publications

Works in Progress

My dissertation spans a range of topics around urban land use. You can find my works in progress below:

Dissertation Papers

• When Do Local Income Taxes Cause Residential Sorting? Evidence from Pennsylvania’s Piecewise Earned Income Tax
  • Continuous stacked difference-in-differences on LEHD/LODES worker flows (2002–2019) identifying a causal effect from Pennsylvania’s piecewise local Earned Income Tax.
  • Major contributions of the paper:
    • Municipal level income tax effects.
    • The binding decomposition that isolates rate changes that move a worker’s tax bill above the worker tax.
  • I find residential sorting away from binding municipal increases.
  • Accepted to the North American Meetings of the Urban Economics Association (September 2026).
  • Draft (May 2026) — PDF
• Rent Control Capitalization into Land Values: Evidence from New Jersey’s New Construction Exemption
  • Triple-difference design on 2024 assessed values exploiting New Jersey’s New Construction Exemption. The law change permitted newly built 4+ unit buildings to be excluded from the city’s rent control ordinance.
  • I find a land value premium of approximately 4.7%, significant at all three legislative cutoffs (1987, 1992, 1997), with a positive but largely mechanical effect on building (improvement) values.
  • Draft (June 2026) — PDF
• Conservation and Externalities: The Effect of Conservation Easements on Neighboring Residential Parcels
  • Staggered difference-in-differences design on 550K residential parcels to estimate the trade-off between lost tax capacity from easements and the market value spillovers from those nearby easements.
  • Draft (May 2025) — PDF
• Transportation Changes Land Use: How the St. Croix Bridge Shaped Accessibility, Housing Values, and Travel Behavior
  • IV–difference-in-differences design to estimate the impact of the St. Croix Bridge opening on access and how that access capitalizes into higher land and improvement values.
  • Wrote with Eric Lind at the Accessibility Observatory using in-house access data.
  • Presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (2026) and the CTS Transportation Research Conference (2025).

As I begin the publishing and public sharing phase of my research, you’ll be able to find the code for my projects on my GitHub.

Publications

Featured Publication

Accountability Through Accessibility – Measuring What Matters for Departments of Transportation
My paper "Transportation Changes Land Use: How the St. Croix Bridge Shaped Accessibility, Housing Values, and Travel Behavior" was summarized into a white paper which includes work done by my coworkers at the Accessibility Observatory.