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Evan Soltas

I am a public-finance economist interested in the welfare analysis of government policies, often in an urban or spatial context. Much of my research examines how taxes, subsidies, and regulations affect the "supply side" of the housing market.

I joined Microsoft Research NYC as a postdoctoral fellow in July 2024. I will start as an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University in fall 2025.

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Publications

"A Welfare Analysis of Occupational Licensing in U.S. States," with Morris M. Kleiner. Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 90 (October 2023), 2481–2516.

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"The Price of Inclusion: Evidence from Housing Developer Behavior." Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
Selected as Best Student Paper at the 2020 Urban Economics Association meeting.

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"The Impacts of Covid-19 Absences on Workers," with Gopi Shah Goda. Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 222 (June 2023): 104889.

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"A Natural Experiment on Discrimination in Elections," with David E. Broockman. Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 188 (August 2020): 104201.

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Working Papers

"Self-Targeting in U.S. Transfer Programs," with Charlie Rafkin and Adam Solomon. Honorable Mention for Best Student Paper (ITAX Award) at the 2023 International Institute of Public Finance. September 2024.

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"Tax Incentives and the Supply of Low-Income Housing." May 2024.

"Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market," with Charlie Rafkin. March 2024.


Resources

csranks: confidence sets on ranks [Stata program]. Available on the SSC archive.

Census–NAICS 2012 Industry Code Crosswalk. Available on the Harvard Dataverse.

Original Input-Output Table from 1947 Interindustry Relations Study. Available on the Harvard Dataverse.