Ongoing research
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Last Resort Insurance: Wildfires and the Regulation of a Crashing Market
We study the role played by the insurer of last resort, with an empirical application to the California FAIR plan and the state’s non-renewal moratorium.
Hurricanes and Migration: New Evidence from Credit Bureau Microdata
Hurricanes don’t cause substantial outmigration in the U.S., with the exception of Hurricane Katrina.
Pricing Protection – Credit Scores, Disaster Risk, and Home Insurance Affordability
Credit scores matter more than disaster risk for insurance pricing
Flood Risk Mapping and the Distributional Impacts of Climate Information
This paper investigates the impacts of new information and of information access costs on the demand for disaster insurance.
Social Security and High-Frequency Labor Supply: Evidence from Uber (with Timothy Beatty)
This paper investigates the impacts of social security on the dynamic labor supply of older workers through a collaboration with Uber