I'm very excited to join the economics department at Notre Dame this fall! Of course, the sad part is leaving my colleagues at Upjohn.

🎉. Our forthcoming article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) on whether new apartments raise nearby rents is online! Check it out, even if it does wind up getting ratio’d.

My article "The effect of new market-rate housing construction on the low-income housing market" is now forthcoming at Journal of Urban Economics. If you'd like a copy and don't have access, you can download through this link for the next 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1dnZLLPdAq3VG

We are hiring research faculty! The job is to work with orgs fighting poverty in the US to run research projects that both contribute to general academic knowledge and directly inform the partner's work. Glad to answer questions. apply.interfolio.com/93541

We have a terrific trio of job market candidates Notre Dame Economics this year! First up, many thanks to Jennifer Doleac for highlighting Isabel Gödl-Hanisch's job market paper on bank concentration and implications for monetary policy transmission. 1/3

Black population decline in large cities has gotten a lot of press in the past few weeks. For example, see this excellent article in Politico: politico.com/newsletters/th…. @evan_mast2 and I have a recent paper that examines this decline and related patterns. 1/9

Finally, while city decline has gotten more attention lately, our paper is focused on the related trend of rapid Black suburbanization. To see how large this movement has been, compare the distributions of Black population in LA census tracts in 1970 and 2018. 7/9

Does electing a city council by districts, instead of citywide, make it harder to build housing? This study says yes: research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewconten…

Does anyone have a cleaned version of the GSS with metro or state level aggregates of key questions going back to 1970? (my previous data begging on twitter has been so successful I figured I'd try again)

🚨🚨New ⁦⁦Densely Speaking⁩: we chat with Evan Mast (Notre Dame econ⁩) about his paper on local effects of building new apts in low-income areas. Guest co-host: Kate Pennington (⁦Kate Pennington⁩, US Census); hosted by ⁦Jeffrey Lin⁩ & me. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/den…

All of these deaths must be blamed on the Mayor and the city representative for the neighborhood where the killing took place. They have the power and the funds to build safe streets, they know it, but they’re more afraid of angry drivers than dead children.

Towns build less housing after switching from at-large to ward voting. Just Accepted new paper, "Warding Off Development: Local Control, Housing Supply, and NIMBYs" by Evan Mast (Evan Mast). zcu.io/dpWO

🚨a quick thread about a long-running project now released as NBER WP This paper is joint w/ John Eric Humphries , Winnie van Dijk , Danny Tannenbaum, Davin Reed & Nick Mader. It replaces 2 separate studies of eviction in Chicago (Humphries et al) and NYC (Collinson & Reed) 1/N

🧵 I am Notre Dame Economics 's placement director this year. So let me tell you about our amazing job market candidates' (in alphabetical order) job market papers. You can find them all here: economics.nd.edu/graduate-progr…

Table 1 in the link below has these figures for all the cities in the sample dropbox.com/s/24a9u2ixs6p6…

We are hosting a conference on housing research at Notre Dame this October! Ed Glaeser will be the keynote speaker. Submit papers by June 30 at this link: realestate.nd.edu/research/housi…

Thank you for the shoutout from tylercowen in today's Marginal Revolution on my working paper on local population decline co-authored with Evan Mast. Since Twitter now deprioritizes links, I'm going add some in the comments below to the working paper and our policy brief.