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Short-id: pco1212

Working Papers

2025

1. Information Frictions and the Labor Market for Public School Teachers
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2024

2. Means-Tested Solar Subsidies
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo

2023

3. Optimal Subsidies for Residential Solar
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
   See also Journal Article Optimal Subsidies for Residential Solar, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, University of Chicago Press (2026) (2026)

2022

4. The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration
   Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition View citations (1)
   Also in Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (2020) View citations (3)
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2020) View citations (3)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association (2024) View citations (6) (2024)

2021

5. Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions
   Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
   See also Journal Article Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (2025) (2025)

2019

6. Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid
   Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition
   Also in Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (2018) View citations (6)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2018) View citations (4)
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2018) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (2021) View citations (13) (2021)
7. The Environmental Cost of Land Use Restrictions
   Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The environmental cost of land‐use restrictions, Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society (2022) View citations (3) (2022)

2018

8. Dynamic Responses to Immigration
   Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis View citations (2)

2017

9. Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium
   Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association (2021) View citations (9) (2021)

Journal Articles

2026

1. Optimal Subsidies for Residential Solar
   Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2026, 4, (1), 213 - 264
   See also Working Paper Optimal Subsidies for Residential Solar, CESifo Working Paper Series (2023) (2023)

2025

2. Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43, (1), 161 - 201
   See also Working Paper Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions, Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers (2021) (2021)

2024

3. The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16, (2), 515-50 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration, Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series (2022) View citations (1) (2022)

2023

4. Vertical migration externalities
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2023, 101, (C)

2022

5. The environmental cost of land‐use restrictions
   Quantitative Economics, 2022, 13, (1), 179-223 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper The Environmental Cost of Land Use Restrictions, Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers (2019) View citations (1) (2019)

2021

6. Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13, (2), 100-134 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium, Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers (2017) View citations (2) (2017)
7. Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid
   Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129, (2), 492 - 533 View citations (13)
   See also Working Paper Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid, Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series (2019) (2019)

2019

8. Transformations in China’s Internal Labor Migration and Hukou System
   Journal of Labor Research, 2019, 40, (3), 296-331 View citations (5)