Quoting Manduca, Highsmith, and Waggoner
Robert Manduca, Brian Highsmith, Jacob Waggoner, Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality, _Socio-Economic Review_, 2025
I use Obsidian as my main notetaking app (among many other things it does for me). I try to implement Andy Matuschak's 'Evergreen Notes' method when working through a particular concept in the literature. Often, this means linking notes together that haven't been created yet. This post outlines a method of finding such orphaned links, so I can fill them in.
What do universities actually do?
With universities all over the United States under fire from the Trump administration, there appears to be mass confusion by non-academics about what universities do. This post is meant as a plain language explainer of the kinds of things that research-intensive universities do.
Working papers
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Christopher B. Goodman. "Local Governments in the Age of Preemption,” Working paper.
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Christopher B. Goodman. "Demand Shocks & Special Districts: Evidence from Chinese Import Shocks,” Working paper.
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Christopher B. Goodman and Suzanne M. Leland. "Creative Destruction? Examining Special District Dissolution by Service Area."
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Christopher B. Goodman. "Overlapping Jurisdictions and Residential Segregation by Race”
Current courses
Intermediate Public & Nonprofit Financial Management
- Fall 2025 (asynchronous online)