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Todd Sinai
Associate Professor of Real Estate and Business and Public Policy


Education

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997; BA, Yale University, 1992

Recent Consulting

Authored expert report on the demographic makeup of Low Income Housing Tax Credit recipients.

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards

Edwin S. Mills Best Paper Award, 2004 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Homer Hoyt Institute, 2001; Ballard Teaching Award, 2001; HUD/AREUEA Best Paper Award, 2001

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 1997-present (Abraham Mitchell Term Assistant Professor of Real Estate, 2000-2005).

Other Positions

Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999-present; Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 2000-present

Professional Leadership 2005-2009

Co-organizer, Public Policy and Real Estate sessions at NBER, 1999-present

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Publications
James Poterba, Todd Sinai (2008), Tax Expenditures for Owner-Occupied Housing: Deductions for Property Taxes and Mortgage Interest and the Exclusion of Imputed Rental Income, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 96, number 2 (May 2008).
Todd Sinai, Joel Waldfogel (2005), Do Low-Income Housing Subsidies Increase the Occupied Housing Stock?, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 89, number 11-12 (December 2005), pp. 2137-2164
Charles Himmelberg, Christopher Mayer, Todd Sinai (2005), Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Misperceptions, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 19, number 4 (Fall 2005), pp. 67-92
Todd Sinai, Nicholas Souleles (2005), Owner Occupied Housing as a Hedge Against Rent Risk, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 120, number 2 (May 2005), pp. 763-789
Joseph Gyourko, Todd Sinai (2004), The Asset Price Incidence of Capital Gains Taxes: Evidence from the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and Publicly-Traded Real Estate Firms, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 88, #7-8 (July 2004), pp. 1543-1565.

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Current Research
Andrew Paciorek, Todd Sinai 2010, Does Home Owning Smooth the Variability of Future Housing Consumption?
James Poterba, Todd Sinai 2010, Revenue Costs and Incentive Effects of the Mortgage Interest Deduction for Owner-Occupied Housing
Nicholas Souleles, Todd Sinai 2009, Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?

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Honors And Awards
Edwin S. Mills Best Paper Award for the best paper in Real Estate Economics, 2004
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)/AREUEA best paper in housing and urban development at the Annual AREUEA Conferences, 2001

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Sinai Todd
Todd Sinai
 1465 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-5390
sinai@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests:
Risk and pricing in housing markets; taxation of real estate and capital gains; commercial real estate and real estate investment trusts; air traffic delays; real estate and public economics