Research

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)
• The hyperkron graph model for higher-order features (with Nicole Eikmeier and David Gleich), ICDM (2018)

Policy

• The donut effect: How COVID-19 shapes real estate (with Nick Bloom), SIEPR Policy Brief (Jan 2021)
• The doughnut effect of COVID-19 on cities (with Nick Bloom), CEPR Vox (Jan 2021)

Seminars & talks

• 2023: AEAs, Brookings (round table)
• 2022: OECD, Regional Planning Association, Atlanta Council for Growth
• 2021: HSBC, GAO