Research
WORKING PAPERS
How to Increase Housing Affordability? Understanding Local Deterrents to Building Multi-Family Housing with Amrita Kulka and Nick Chiumenti, under review
[Latest Draft PDF] [First Draft (April, 2022) PDF] [SSRN] [MAPC parcel-level zoning data]
Media Coverage: The Bloomberg News 1, The Bloomberg News 2, Forbes, Brookings Institute, GWU Regulation Digest, Science Vs.
Long Shadow of Housing Discrimination: Evidence from Racial Covenants, with Kevin Ehrman-Solberg
[Working Paper PDF] [Mapping Prejudice data]
Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal, PBS, Philadelphia Inquirer, InequaliTalks Podcast, Richmond Fed Economic Brief, Heller-Hurwicz Institute, University of Toronto School of Cities
This paper subsumes the paper "Long Shadow of Racial Discrimination History: Evidence from Housing Covenants from Minneapolis", with William Speagle & Kevin Ehrman-Solberg
Land Market Frictions in Developing Countries: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in India
Media Coverage: Heller-Hurwicz Institute
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
De Jure versus De Facto Discrimination: Evidence from Racial Covenants, with Milena Almagro
Awarded Russell Sage Foundation and Gates Foundation Pipeline Grant
Media Coverage: Chicago Booth Review
Teacher Sorting and Student Outcomes: Evidence from a Centralized Market of Teachers, with Mariana Laverde, Elton Mykerezi, and Aaron Sojourner
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS & OTHER WRITING
Sood, Aradhya, and Nicholas Chiumenti. “Local Zoning Laws and the Supply of Multifamily Housing in Greater Boston.” Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Reports, vol. 22, no. 1, Oct. 2022.
[Research Report Link] [Companion Federal Reseve Bank of Boston Working Paper No. 22-10]
Sood, Aradhya. "Land Market Frictions in India." India in Transition Series, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, 12 September 2022.
[Article Link] Reprinted in Scroll.in, September 20, 2022 [Scroll.in] and Amar Ujala (Hindi), September 16, 2022 [Amar Ujala]