Research
Recent Publications
Labor Outcomes of Mortgage Payment Subsidies for Unemployed Homeowners (2025, Journal of Housing Economics)
The Effects of Administrative Burden on Program Equity and Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Foreclosure Prevention Program (2023, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences)
Success Bridge Evaluation (2023, supported by Columbus State Community College)
Does Temporary Mortgage Assistance for Unemployed Homeowners Reduce Longer-Term Mortgage Default? An Analysis of the Hardest Hit Fund Program (2022, Journal of Policy Analysis & Management)
Are Foreclosure Spillover Effects Universal? Variation over Space and Time (2021, Housing Policy Debate)
Daybreak in Dayton: Assessing characteristics and outcomes of previously homeless youth living in transitional housing (2018, Children and Youth Services Review)
Current Projects
Working Papers
“Maybe I Deserve This”: Exploring Tenant Perceptions of the Causes of Eviction (revise and resubmit)
Can Rapid Rental Assistance Forestall Eviction? (under review)
How Racial Inequities in Jail Duration Exacerbate Racial Inequities in Housing Evictions (Working paper)
How Filing Fees Affect Landlord Pursuit of Default Judgments and Tenant Outcomes in Residential Eviction Cases (Working Paper)
Analyzing the Influence of Neighborhood-Level Incarcerations on Evictions (Dissertation Paper)
Locked Out and Locked Up? Investigating the Relationship between Eviction and Recidivism (Dissertation Paper)
Active Policy Evaluation Projects
The Impact of Renter Education on Risk of Eviction for Tenants with and without Rental Assistance (supported by J-PAL North America)
Knoxville Eviction Defense Project, Knoxville, TN, (supported by the Appalachian Justice Research Center and the Russell Sage Foundation)
Housing Preferences among People Experiencing Homelessness, Bay Area, California (supported by J-PAL North America)
Housing Security, Environmental Change and Life Coaching as a Mechanism for Reducing Health Disparities among Minority Families, Columbus OH