Selected research in mainstream publications and blogs:

• “The Downtown Decade: U.S. Population Density Rose in the 2010s.” New York Times. September 1, 2021.
• “Where Are the Job Seekers?” Indeed Hiring Lab. June 2, 2021.
• “In Reversal, Retirements Increased During the Pandemic.” New York Times. May 12, 2021.
• “How the Pandemic Did, and Didn’t, Change Where Americans Move.” With Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui. New York Times. April 19, 2021.
• “The Jobs the Pandemic May Devastate.” New York Times. February 22, 2021.
• “Election Showed a Wider Red-Blue Economic Divide.” New York Times. November 11, 2020.
• “Why Blue Places Have Been Hit Harder Economically Than Red Ones.” New York Times. October 30, 2020.
• “Why Job Postings Have Fallen More in Large, Rich Metros.” Indeed Hiring Lab. June 25, 2020.
• “Don’t Cheer Too Soon. Keep an Eye on the Core Jobless Rate.” New York Times. June 15, 2020.
• “The Myth of the Urban Boomer.” New York Times. January 24, 2020.
• “What Is Your City’s Twin?” With Josh Katz. New York Times. April 3, 2018.
• “Seattle Climbs but Austin Sprawls: The Myth of the Return to Cities.” New York Times. May 22, 2017.
• “‘Normal America’ Is Not A Small Town Of White People.” FiveThirtyEight. April 28, 2016.
• “Urban Revival? Not For Most Americans.” Personal blog. March 30, 2016.
• “Should Your Tech Firm Have an Economist?” LinkedIn Pulse. February 1, 2016.
• “Why Millennials Still Live With Their Parents.” Terner Center blog. November 23, 2015.
• “How Suburban are Big American Cities?” FiveThirtyEight. May 21, 2015.
• “Business Climate Rankings and the California Economy.” With David Neumark and Marisol Cuellar Mejia. Public Policy Institute of California. 2011.
• “Making the Most of Transit: Density, Employment, and Ridership Around New Stations.” Public Policy Institute of California. 2011.
• “Do California’s Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?” With David Neumark. Public Policy Institute of California. 2009.