Senior Economist · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
I study how policy, technology, and structural change reshape labor markets across time and place.
Research on immigration, occupational change, regional inequality, housing, and the low-carbon transition.
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Research
I combine historical records, administrative data, and modern causal methods to study labor markets and public policy.
Research fields: Labor Economics, Urban Economics, Economic History
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Review of Industrial Organization · 2026
Original occupational titles from 1860–1940 reveal how the extent of the market shaped specialization during U.S. industrialization.
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics · 16(2): 130–75 · 2024
Using linked administrative records and caseworker placement tendencies, I find that rapid housing placement reduces returns to the homeless support system, crime, and emergency cash assistance, with no detectable effect on health services utilization.
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics · 15(1): 164–91 · 2023
U.S.-born workers in areas losing immigrants did not benefit relative to workers in less-exposed areas. Urban labor markets adjusted through migration, agriculture shifted toward capital-intensive production, and immigrant-intensive mining contracted.
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Conditionally accepted · American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Using newly digitized annual wage data, we show that low-skilled wages rose faster in labor markets more exposed to the 1920s immigration quotas.
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Conditionally accepted · European Economic Review
New occupation-level measures trace direct and supply-chain exposure to emissions-intensive production across workers, industries, and places.
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Research Working Paper 23-10 · Submitted
A staggered difference-in-differences design finds moderate, broadly shared economic gains alongside more concentrated social costs.
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Manuscript · May 2026
We develop an iterative algorithm for partitioning the United States into geographic labor markets using commuting flows. The resulting delineations reduce cross-boundary commuting relative to conventional Commuting Zones and let researchers assess sensitivity to labor-market definitions.
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Preliminary draft · September 2026
I construct a longitudinal inventory of physical homeless housing and shelter sites in Los Angeles and link it to small-area measures of sheltered and unsheltered homelessness. The analysis studies spatial sorting, spillovers, and changes around first exposure to temporary and permanent housing sites.
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Policy
Short-form analysis connecting evidence on labor supply, immigration, and structural change to the policy questions of the day.
An aging population is raising demand for care while the labor pools that have powered recent healthcare growth face new constraints.
Read analysisRecent immigration expanded labor supply and helped ease tight labor-market conditions across industries and states.
Read analysisOnline job postings reveal how employers adjust recruiting when immigration falls short of prior trends.
Read analysisPersistent worker shortages helped keep unemployment low as monetary policy tightened.
Read analysisThe pandemic-era immigration shortfall slowed labor-force growth and created persistent hiring challenges.
Read analysisWork in progress
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About
I am a Senior Economist in the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
My research interests lie at the intersection of labor and public economics. I use empirical methods to study homelessness and housing, immigration, economic history, innovation, and labor-market adjustment to technological and environmental change.
Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Bank in 2021, I completed my Ph.D. in Economics at UCLA.