Public policy

Researchers' degrees of flexibility: Revisiting COVID-19 policy evaluations

Empirical research involves multiple, seemingly-minor choices that can substantially impact a study's findings. While acknowledged, the importance of these “degrees of flexibility” on published estimates is not well understood. We examine the …

Pricing Protection -- Credit Scores, Disaster Risk, and Home Insurance Affordability

Credit scores matter more than disaster risk for insurance pricing

Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets

Climate change impacts threaten the stability of the US housing market. In response to growing concerns that increasing costs of flooding are not fully captured in property values, we quantify the magnitude of unpriced flood risk in the housing …

Untapped potential: leak reduction is the most cost-effective urban water management tool

Water leaks management as an efficient urban water saving tool.

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 distancing responses to COVID-19 emergency declarations strongly differentiated by income

We highlight mobility inequalities during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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