Refereed Journal Articles
Remote Work or Covid-19? Disentangling the causes of urban population decline
[R&R at Urban Studies]
Examines the extent to which recent urban population decline trends are due to remote work versus the pandemic, and whether the new remote-work era has introduced a new urban spatial structure oriented away from density.
Economic Development Quarterly, 2025
with Elizabeth Currid-Halkett.
Challenges widespread perceptions of rural economic decline, demonstrating surprising rural job growth rates in certain knowledge industries and strengthens existing findings that the nature of the metropolitan classification system tends to erode rural economic vitality.
Technical Reports
METRANS Transportation Center, 2024
with Marlon Boarnet, Andre Comadon, Seva Rodnyansky, & Bonnie Wang.
California Office of Planning and Research/California Strategic Growth Council, 2020
with Genevieve Giuliano, Marlon Boarnet, Miguel Jaller, Wilma Franco, Robert Binder, Sue Dexter, Jiawen Fang, David Moctezuma, Anmol Pahwa, & Bonnie Wang.
Press
Los Angeles Times, 09/17/23
with Elizabeth Currid-Halkett.
Works in Progress
The Hidden Demographic Drivers of the Remote Work Urban Exodus
Remote Work as Migration Motivator: a micro-level analysis of post-pandemic urban location preferences
with Bonnie Wang.
Fit for Purpose: The History of Sanborn Maps and What They Tell Us about the Evolution of American Cities, 1867–2000
with Elizabeth Currid-Halkett.