Research
Working papers
- The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement (with Tom Cunningham, Lukas Althoff, Basil Halperin, Brian Jabarian, Andrew Koh, Phil Trammell, Parker Whitfill, and Cheryl Wu), latest draft July 2026
Published work
- How work from home reshapes cities (with Nick Bloom and Joel Alcedo), PNAS (Sep 2024)
- Coverage: FT, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg, The Economist, Vox (1, 2)
- Subsumes The Donut Effect of Covid-19 on Cities (with Nick Bloom), NBER Working Paper 28876 (2021, 2022)
- Coin-flipping, ball-dropping, and grass-hopping for sampling random graphs from matrices of edge probabilities (with David Gleich and Nicole Eikmeier), SIAM Review (2019)
- Coverage: The Next Web, Journal and Courier
- The hyperkron graph model for higher-order features (with Nicole Eikmeier and David Gleich), ICDM (2018)
In progress
- Economic implications of the multidimensional intelligence hypothesis (with Erik Brynjolfsson and Basil Halperin)
- Learning to collaborate: remote work and firm globalization (with Whitney Zhang)
- Generational turnover and scientific disruption