The Costs of Mandates that Waste US International Emergency Food Aid Resources: New Evidence
with Vincent H. Smith and Philip G. Hoxie
AEI Economics Working Paper 2025-08
Predoctoral Research Fellow
T. M. Jensen Ahokovi
I study how people, businesses, markets, and public policy interact to shape housing, work, and economic opportunity.
At the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Stanford GSB TAX Lab.
Labor and urban economics
Studies how people choose and find work, how firms hire, and how housing, cities, and local economies shape those choices.
Public finance
Studies how taxes, government spending, and public programs affect people, businesses, and the wider economy.
Economic history
Studies how economies, institutions, and living standards changed over time, and what the past can teach us about economic questions today.
Research
Authored work
Working papers and policy research.
Taxation-Induced Tenancy: Evidence from Washington D.C.
Sole author
Accepted at the 2024 National Tax Association Annual Conference on Taxation; presented at the 2024 North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association. Manuscript coming soon.
The Supply Effects of Rent Control: New Evidence from New York
Sole author
Manuscript coming soon.
Wealth by Association? How Social Networks Drive Inequality in Hawaii
with Dylan Moore
UHERO Policy Brief
Works in progress
Provisional collaborative work.
Population Drops in Attractive Areas
with Ed Glaeser, Ferdinando Monte, and Stan Veuger
How Effective is In-Kind Food Aid? Evidence from USAID
with Phil Hoxie and Vincent Smith
What Can ‘Longest-Run’ House Price Indices Tell Us About the Current Housing Crisis?
with Gerard Dericks
Research assistance
I supported these projects as a research assistant. The scholars listed below are the authors.
Intergovernmental Grants to School Districts and Educational Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jeffrey Clemens, Philip G. Hoxie, and Stan Veuger · NBER Working Paper 35447, July 2026
Firms’ Real and Reporting Responses to Taxation: A Review
Rebecca Lester and Marcel Olbert · Journal of Accounting and Economics 80(2–3), 101837 (2025)
Aid for Incumbents: The Electoral Consequences of COVID-19 Relief
Jeffrey Clemens, Julia Payson, and Stan Veuger · NBER Working Paper 32962, Sept. 2024
About
I am a predoctoral research fellow at SIEPR and the Stanford GSB TAX Lab, where I work with Ran Abramitzky and Rebecca Lester.
Previously, I was a research assistant in Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, primarily supporting Stan Veuger, Vincent Smith, and Paul Kupiec.
I earned a BA in Economics, cum laude, with a Quantitative Economics Concentration from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2024.
Earlier research experience
- 2023–2024University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization
- 2023Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education
- 2021–2023Grassroot Institute of Hawai‘i
- 2021 & 2022Urban Land Institute Scholar
Curriculum vitae
Last updated April 2026
Contact
Stanford, CA 94305