Cody Cook

PhD Student, Economic Analysis & Policy
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Cody Cook

I am a public economist with research interests in urban and labor economics. In my research, I use large linked datasets and tools from industrial organization to study topics such as affordable housing, congestion pricing, and policies affecting urban inequality.

Faculty Advisors

Rebecca Diamond,
Matthew Gentzkow,
Lanier Benkard,
Paul Oyer

Research Interests

  • Public/Urban economics
  • Affordable housing policy
  • Urban inequality

Job Market Paper

Where to Build Affordable Housing? Evaluating the Tradeoffs of Location
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with Pearl Z. Li and Ariel Binder.

Publications

The Gender Pay Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Uber Drivers
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Cook, Diamond, Hall, List, and Oyer. Review of Economic Studies Volume 88, Issue 5, October 2021, Pages 2210–2238

Older Workers and the Gig Economy
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Cook, Diamond, and Oyer. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109: 372-376. 2019

Working Papers

Value Pricing or Lexus Lanes? The Distributional Effects of Dynamic Tolling
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with Pearl Z. Li.

Heterogeneous Preferences for Neighborhood Amenities: Evidence from GPS Data
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R&R at the Review of Economics and Statistics

Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students
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with Lindsey Currier and Edward Glaeser. Conditionally accepted, Nature Cities

Socioeconomic Network Heterogeneity and Pandemic Policy Response

with Mohammad Akbarpour, Aude Marzuoli, Simon Mongey, Abhishek Nagaraj, Matteo Saccarola, Pietro Tebaldi, and Shoshana Vasserman