Rebecca Diamond (economist) explained
Rebecca Diamond is Class of 1988 Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business[1] and an associate editor of Econometrica and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Her research areas include urban economics and labor economics.
In 2022, she was awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize.[2]
Biography
Diamond is the daughter of Elizabeth Cammack Diamond and Douglas Diamond, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.[3] [4]
She graduated from Yale University in 2007 with a BS in Physics and Economics & Mathematics, worked for a year as an analyst for Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and then began graduate study at Harvard University. She earned an MA in Economics in 2011 and a PhD in Economics in 2013, and has been at Stanford University since then.
Research
Diamond's research focuses on topics in housing and inequality, including gender gaps in gig work, affordable housing development, and the geography of consumption inequality.[5] Her work combines theoretical modeling with empirical analysis using new datasets, and often involves the connections between housing markets and labor markets. In work receiving media coverage, she studied a rent control policy implemented in San Francisco in 1994, finding that this policy reduced the amount of rental housing eligible for the policy as landlords sold rent-controlled apartments for condominium-conversions and replaced rent-controlled apartments with new buildings not covered by the policy.[6] [7] [8]
Selected works
- Diamond, Rebecca. "The determinants and welfare implications of US workers' diverging location choices by skill: 1980-2000." American Economic Review 106, no. 3 (2016): 479-524.
- Allcott, Hunt, Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre Dubé, Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky, and Molly Schnell. "Food deserts and the causes of nutritional inequality." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134, no. 4 (2019): 1793-1844.
- Cook, Cody, Rebecca Diamond, Jonathan V. Hall, John A. List, and Paul Oyer. "The gender earnings gap in the gig economy: Evidence from over a million rideshare drivers." The Review of Economic Studies 88, no. 5 (2021): 2210-2238.
- Diamond, Rebecca, Tim McQuade, and Franklin Qian. "The effects of rent control expansion on tenants, landlords, and inequality: Evidence from San Francisco." American Economic Review 109, no. 9 (2019): 3365-94.
- Diamond, Rebecca, and Tim McQuade. "Who wants affordable housing in their backyard? An equilibrium analysis of low-income property development." Journal of Political Economy 127, no. 3 (2019): 1063-1117.
Notes and References
- Web site: Rebecca Diamond . 2022-10-23 . Stanford Graduate School of Business . en.
- Web site: Rebecca Diamond Recipient of the 2022 Elaine Bennett Research Prize . Oct 22, 2022 . American Economic Association.
- List . John A . July 2020 . NON EST DISPUTANDUM DE GENERALIZABILITY? A GLIMPSE INTO THE EXTERNAL VALIDITY TRIAL . NBER Working Paper Series . 27535 . 30.
- Web site: Douglas Diamond wins Nobel Prize for research on banks and financial crises University of Chicago News . 2023-01-10 . news.uchicago.edu . October 10, 2022 . en.
- Web site: Saito . Shinya . 2021-02-03 . Rebecca Diamond . 2022-10-23 . UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series . en-US.
- News: The Evidence Against Rent Control . en . NPR.org . 2022-10-26.
- Web site: Brinklow . Adam . 2017-11-03 . Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco . 2022-10-26 . Curbed SF . en.
- Web site: Diamond . Rebecca . 2018-10-18 . What does economic evidence tell us about the effects of rent control? . 2022-10-26 . Brookings . en-US.
