Homelessness and housing policy
“Aggregate-level inferences from individual-level data: The case of permanent supportive housing and Housing First,” 2023, Journal of Housing Economics 59 (part A).
“Frustrated bus robbers, liberal cat-lovers, and Keynesian dentists: A review of three books about US homelessness,” 2022, European Journal of Homelessness 16 (2): 231-250.
“Why it won’t ever be 2019 again,” 2021, keynote address at FEANTSA annual research conference; European Journal of Homelessness 16(1).
“Homelessness,” 2021, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources, and Population Economics. Springer-Verlag.
“Review essay: The Council of Economic Advisers (2019) The State of Homelessness in the United States,” 2020, European Journal of Homelessness 14(1): 139-162.
“Progress and poverty,” 2020, Deborah Padgett and Benjamin Henwood, eds. Social Work Grand Challenge: Ending Homelessness, pp. 5-11, at https://www.gc2eh.org/.
“Homelessness research: A guide for economists (and friends),” 2019, Journal of Housing Economics 44: 1-25.
“Private information, exits from homelessness, and better ways to operate rehousing programs,” with Rosanna Scutella and Yi-Peng Tseng, 2018, Journal of Housing Economics 41(1): 93-105.
“Using private information to predict homeless entries: Evidence and prospects,” with Rosanna Scutella and Yi-Peng Tseng, 2018, Housing Policy Debate 28(3): 368-392.
“Assessment and prediction in homelessness services and elsewhere,” 2017, Australian Economic Review 50(2): 229-235.
“Homelessness prevention: On average, it works” with Peter Messeri and Sarena Goodman, 2016, Journal of Housing Economics 31(1):14-34.
“How effective homelessness prevention impacts the length of shelter spells,” with Sarena F. Goodman and Peter Messeri, 2014, Journal of Housing Economics 23(1): 55-62.
“How New York and Los Angeles housing policies are different—and maybe why,” with Ingrid Gould Ellen, 2013. In: David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge, editors, New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future, pp. 286-309. New York: Oxford University Press.
“Individual homelessness: Entries, exits, and policy,” 2012, Journal of Housing Economics 21(2): 77-100.
“Housing allowances and homelessness: A simple idea,” 2012, University of Calgary, School of Public Policy Research Papers, volume 5, issue 2.
Review of Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness, by Russell K. Schutt, 2012, in Political Science Quarterly 127(1): 169-71.
“Homelessness: Economic perspectives,” 2012. In: Susan J. Smith, Marja Elsinga, Lorna Fox O’Mahony, Ong Seow Eng, Susan Wachter, editors. International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Volume 2, pp. 37-41. Oxford: Elsevier.
“Rental housing assistance for the 21st century,” 2011, Cityscape 13(2): 127-146.
How to House the Homeless. Co-editor, with Ingrid Gould Ellen. 2010. New York: Russell Sage.
Within this book:
“Introduction,” with Ingrid Gould Ellen.
“Homelessness as bad luck: Implications for research and practice.”
“Is shared housing a way to reduce homelessness? The effect of household arrangements on formerly homeless people,” 2010, with Yinghua He and Robert Rosenheck, Journal of Housing Economics 19 (1): 1-12.
“Homeless prevention,” with Jocelyn Apicello and William McAllister, 2012, International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
“Homelessness in the United States,” 2011, Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning, Oxford University Press.
“When should homeless families get subsidized apartments?” 2009, Journal of Housing Economics 18 (2): 69-80.
“Homeless shelters for single adults: Why does their population change?” with Ting Wu, 2008, Social Service Review 82 (3): 511-50.
“Do government programs make households too small? Evidence from New York City,” with Ingrid Gould Ellen, 2007, Population Research and Policy Review 26 (4): 387-409.
“Fewer subsidized exits and a recession: How New York City’s family homeless shelter population became immense,” with Ting Wu, 2006, Journal of Housing Economics 15 (2): 99-125.
“Wrong person and wrong place: For homelessness, the conjunction is what matters,” 2004, Journal of Housing Economics 13 (1): 1-15.
“Need and generosity: How markets for free goods equilibrate,” 2003, Journal of Urban Economics 54 (1): 157-72
“Do homeless shelter conditions determine shelter population? The case of the Dinkins deluge,” 1999, with Michael Cragg, Journal of Urban Economics 46: 377-415.
“The form of U.S. in-kind programs,” 1999, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 15: 401-17.
Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Chosen by Association of American Publishers as the best economics book of 1996.
“An economic theory of housing and homelessness,” 1995, Journal of Housing Economics 4: 13-49.
“Measuring the economics of homelessness,” SIPA News 7: 3.