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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.

Rethinking the Urban–Rural Divide: Economic Growth in America’s Heartland

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

The Impact of Remote Working on Job and Housing Location in the Bay Area–Central Valley Region

METRANS Transportation Center, 2024

with Marlon Boarnet, Andre Comadon, Seva Rodnyansky, & Bonnie Wang.

Improving Environmental Justice and Mobility in Southeast Los Angeles

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

Rural California isn’t what you think it is

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.