Previously, I was a Visiting Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) from 2021-2025. You can find an archive of my popular writing here. I typically wrote about inflation inequality and tax reform.
I was most proud to work on a project called "Inflation Inequality Across Space and Time in the United States." This is a multiyear project on inflation inequality with Jon Hartley supported and distributed by FREOPP. Our goal is to give academics and policymakers access to real-time inflation inequality indices across nine Census divisions and the whole nation across multiple demographic groups. Our time series starts in 1978. In 2022, we published a white paper with FREOPP, Inflation's Compounding Impact on the Poor, which explored inflation inequality across the income distribution at the national level. Our data and code were released to the public in April 2022. In May 2024, we began releasing monthly updates and published a report on geographic inflation inequality. Below, we have links to our data, a companion which consolidates and adds academic flavor to the FREOPP reports, and the original reports.