Ruchi Singh

• PhD, Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017
• MS, Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017
• MA, Economics, Delhi School of Economics, 2008

• Urban Economics
• Real Estate
• Applied Econometrics

Journal Articles

• “Measures of Vertical Inequality in Assessments” with Daniel McMillen Journal of Housing Economics, September 2023, 61, 101950
• “Do School Shooting Erode Property Values?” with Juan Muñoz-Morales Regional Science and Urban Economics, January 2023, 98, 103852
• “Land Value Estimation Using Teardowns” with Daniel McMillen Journal of Housing Economics, December 2022, 58, 101874
• Do More Eyes on the Street Reduce Crime? Evidence from Chicago’s Safe Passage Program (with Daniel McMillen and Ignacio Sarmiento). Journal of Urban Economics, 110, March 2019, pp. 1-25
• “Effect of Air Pollution on House Prices: Evidence from Sanctions on Iran” with Amirhossein Amini and Kaveh Nafari Regional Science and Urban Economics, March 2022, 93, 103720
• “Is Competition a Cure for Confusion? Evidence from the Residential Mortgage Market” with Steven Malliaris and Daniel Rettl Real Estate Economics, Spring 2022, 50(1), 206-246
• “Stringency of Land-Use Regulation: Building Heights in US Cities” with Jan Brueckner Journal of Urban Economics, March 2020, 116, 103239
• “Assessment Regressivity and Property Taxation” with Daniel McMillen Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, February 2020, 60, 155-169
• “Fair Market Rent and the Distribution of Rents in Los Angeles” with Daniel McMillen Regional Science and Urban Economics, January 2020, 80, 103397
• “Seismic Risk and House Prices: Evidence from Earthquake Fault Zoning” Regional Science and Urban Economics, March 2019, 75, 187-209
• “Do More Eyes on the Street Reduce Crime? Evidence from Chicago‘s Safe Passage Program” with Daniel McMillen and Ignacio Sarmiento Journal of Urban Economics, March 2019, 110, 1-25 (Lead article)

• Co-Editor, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, March 2022–present
• Editorial Board, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, January 2019–March 2022

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Homer Hoyt Institute, 2022 - present
• Research Affiliate, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2020 - present
• Lincoln Institute Scholar, 2019

• Assistant Professor of Real Estate, University of Georgia, 2017-2023