I am a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford, Department of Economics through the IDEAL Provostial Fellowship. In July 2025, I will join UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business as an Assistant Professor.
I study questions in labor and urban economics by applying methods from spatial economics and insights from economic history. My research focuses on the causes and consequences of inequality in cities and often employs large-scale administrative datasets for the United States.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2024 and my B.A. in Economics and B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Stanford in 2018.
From 2020 to 2024 during my Ph.D., I was also employed at the Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies to build new measures of intergenerational mobility for the post-Civil Rights era.
Working Papers
Unequal Access: Racial Segregation and the Distributional Impacts of Interstate Highways in Cities
November 2024. [Draft]
Best Student Paper Prize, Urban Economics Association
Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in American history, Economic History Association
Opportunity in Motion: Equilibrium Effects of a Place-Based Policy on Economic Mobility
June 2024. [Revision in Progress, Earlier Draft]
The Intergenerational Effects of Local Shocks: Income, Migration, and Human Capital (with Martha Stinson and Sean Wang).
December 2023. [Draft Coming Soon!]
Works in Progress
Municipal Coordination, Zoning, and Inequality in Public Goods (with Vincent Rollet)
Other Papers
Intergenerational Linkages between Historical IRS 1040 Data and the Numident: 1964-1979 Cohorts (with Martha Stinson)
November 2023. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies (CES) Technical Note. [Link]
Intergenerational Linkages between the 1940 Full Count Census and the Numident: 1930-1940 Cohorts (with Martha Stinson)
Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies (CES) Technical Note.
Name pronunciation tip: my last name is composed of two Chinese characters (危吴) and is spoken as way-woo