Assistant Professor of Finance @csufbusiness; @Penn Econ PhD; I study real estate and urban economics
Fullerton, CA
Joined January 2020
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REE forthcoming: Land vacancy is a persistent phenomenon leading to various social issues in legacy cities. @DesenLin examines how a vacant lot greening program can create option value, reduce vacancy and expedite investment in high-uncertainty and low-growth communities.
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I recently published on the increasingly prominent trend of coresidence.
Why do young adults coreside with their parents?
Real Estate Economics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Understanding the sources of geoeconomic power: how it is used, which sectors are strategic, and what are its limitations, from Christopher Clayton, @m_maggiori, and @jschreger nber.org/papers/w31852
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Great new dataset of estimated net migration at subnational and 10x10 km level for each year
between 2000 and 2019. Based on birth rates, death rates, and population counts.
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
Data: zenodo.org/record/7997134
Interactive map: wdrg.aalto.fi/global-net-mig…
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Zillow's gonna hate me but....I wrote a script to scrape the listings from the search results, and download them as a csv 🤯
Drop a comment 👇 + like and I'll send you it + directions on how to run it (must be following)
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Apropos of nothing, here’s a brief thread on a key point about “negative weights” in regression analysis
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Hi all!
I just collected a lot of causal inference resources in a single repo. It contains books, lectures, software, blogs, papers, ... It's still a work in progress, but happy if anyone wants to collaborate! Enjoy 🤗
github.com/matteocourthoud/a…
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I taught a new undergraduate macroeconomics course @LSEEcon. Goals:
1. *Modern* macro = microfoundations rather than IS-LM
2. Simple enough that undergrads get it
3. But still end up somewhere reasonably close to research frontier
All materials here benjaminmoll.com/lectures/
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Hi #EconTwitter!
Looking for some slides on 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬?
Zhenlin Yang (@sgSMU) has some nice slides on the topic, as well as some additional material which may be useful to instructors and students!
Check it our here: mysmu.edu/faculty/zlyang/ECO…
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Dropping a new guide on the latest @Stata map package: #geoplot, by Ben Jann. The Guide provides a comprehensive step-by-step walkthrough for this highly flexible and customizable package:
medium.com/the-stata-guide/m…
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***The 2023 Macro Finance Society Virtual Summer School,*** Aug 7-11
With Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (Penn), @CarolinPflueger (Chicago), @rkoijen (Chicago), @motoyogo (Princeton), @StefanoGiglioEc (Yale), @AlexiSavov and @OlivierWang1 (NYU)
Sign up now: macrofinancesociety.org/mfs-…
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Hi #EconTwitter!
If you haven't done it yet, check out @jondr44's (@Brown_Economics) 𝐃𝐢𝐃 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬!
Amazing stuff on Diff-in-Diff #econometrics - including slides, #RStats/@stata packages, and the 2023 @JEconometrics survey.
Bookmark it **now** 😃
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(1/7) Sharing a new paper w/ Albert Chiu, @liuziyi233, & Xingchen Lan: dropbox.com/s/r58w5d9b1nu81r…
We surveyed six newly proposed estimators as potential remedies to TWFE models under HTE and conducted a systematic reanalysis of 38 recently published papers in APSR, AJPS & JOP.
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#EconTwitter I have created a new DiD Resources page on my website. It has links to all of my DiD teaching slides, coding exercises, and packages I've created.
All this info was technically already online, but hopefully this makes it easier to find it!
jonathandroth.com/did-resour…
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customer analytics teaching materials
kennethcwilbur.github.io/mgt…
designed for ucsd business econ ugrads. could also work for msba
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This reading list of recent advances in econometrics looks like a treasure trove!
christinecai.github.io/Publi…
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This new paper is important.
How do individual names in the U.S. breakdown by race?
"Our data cover the racial make-up of a larger set of names than any comparable dataset, containing 136k first names, 125k middle names, and 338k surnames."
nature.com/articles/s41597-0…
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A spatial sorting model in REStud: As the rich get richer, demand increases for the high-quality amenities available in downtown neighborhoods. Rising demand drives up house prices and spurs the development of higher quality neighborhoods downtown.
academic.oup.com/restud/adva…
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What determines the distribution of people and economic activity across space? How can economic policies affect the spatial distribution of economic activity?
New from @TrebAllen and Costas Arkolakis in Journal of Economic Perspectives @AEAjournals: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
