Working Papers and Published Research

My Research Areas: (somewhat arbitrary classification)

• Public Economics
• Economics of the Family
• Other topics

For published papers please download the published version if you have online access to the publisher's database. In some cases the published version is significantly improved from the earlier version.

Public Economics

• Supply Constraints and Housing Prices joint Work with Thomas Davidoff (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley). Economics Letters, 99 (2008). Published Version. Working Paper version.

• Second Best Taxation and Regulation with Differentiated Land Quality Joint work with Thomas Davidoff (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley).

  Note: an earlier version of this paper was circulated under the name "Optimal Commodity Taxation When Land and Structures Must be Taxed at the Same Rate."

• A Positive Theory of Government Land Sales. Joint work with Francis K Cheung (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Shawn Ni (University of Missouri). Email me for a copy.

• Estate and Capital Gains Taxation: Efficiency and Political Economy Considerations

Economics of the Family

• Does the balance of power within a family matter? The case of the Retirement Equity Act.
  Journal of Public Economics, 89 (2005. Published version. Working Paper version.

• Uncommitted Couples: Some Efficiency and Policy Implications of Marital Bargaining

Other topics

• "What's in a Name?"
  Joint work with Gregory D. Hess (Claremont Mckenna College). Forthcoming in Economic Inquiry. Published version. Working Paper Version.

• Savings and Portfolio Choice in a Two-Period Two-Asset Model Published version. Working Paper version.
  Joint with Peter Diamond (MIT) and John Geanakoplos (Yale). American Economic Review, 92:4 (2002).

• Statistical inference for Lorenz curves using simulated critical values.
  Journal of Income Distribution, 9:2 (2000). Please email me for an earlier working paper version of this work.

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