Beau Bressler
Hello! I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis. I work on topics related to housing, urban policy, and land use regulation, both historically and today.I will join Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) as a Postdoctoral Associate in summer 2026.
My job market paper studies the long-run effects of the American mid-century public housing program on neighborhoods using a newly constructed national dataset.
My second chapter, joint with Tianfang Cui, examines how the 1960s Urban Planning Assistance Program reduced housing supply and institutionalized exclusionary zoning practices.
You can contact me at blbressler@ucdavis.edu.