I estimate the welfare and distributional impact of the home-sharing platform Airbnb on New
York City renters. I develop a structural model of an integrated housing market with two …

Amenities that vary across cities are typically valued using either a hedonic model, in which
amenities are capitalized into wages and housing prices, or a discrete model of household …

I analyze the effect of minimum wage hikes on housing rents, which is illuminating in
understanding the desirability of minimum wages for two reasons. First, if the minimum wage …

This thesis includes three essays that explore the interaction between innovation and
markets. The first essay studies the distributional implications of technological innovation in …